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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The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
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I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.
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I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.
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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.
