Audre Lorde Quotes
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.
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New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
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Me.
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You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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80: Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.
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I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.
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It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
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I use very few muscles at the best of times.
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There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.
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I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.
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Your silence will not protect you.
