Gertrude Atherton Quotes
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
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The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.
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If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.
