Alison Bechdel Quotes
Lois: Oh, you guys have enough to worry about with your careers and all. You don't need to hear about my problems.Ginger: Are you kidding? I'd much rather hear about your problems than work on my dissertation.Lois: Thank you, Ginger. Considering you'd rather fellate Bill Clinton than work on your dissertation, that's very generous.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.
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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
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A lot of filmmakers understand that the work is done digitally, and it's technically possible to change it late in the game.
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I pride myself on being tragically uncool.
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
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Lois: Oh, you guys have enough to worry about with your careers and all. You don't need to hear about my problems.Ginger: Are you kidding? I'd much rather hear about your problems than work on my dissertation.Lois: Thank you, Ginger. Considering you'd rather fellate Bill Clinton than work on your dissertation, that's very generous.
