Parker Posey Quotes
When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
