Lauren Greenfield Quotes
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.
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I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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I am a normal guy.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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I knew what it was at last-the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was all magic was, really, in the end. Possibility. With it I could create anything, provided I believed.
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Poetry can be written only because it has been written.
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
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Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
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My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.
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I am very lucky that my first film was fully commissioned by HBO.
