Alison Bechdel Quotes
Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
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It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.
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I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.
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I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word 'evil'? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says 'evildoers'. Chug the bottle for 'axis of evil'. Are you a president or an exorcist?!
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Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.
