Alber Elbaz Quotes
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.
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In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
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And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!
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Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
