Alison Bechdel Quotes

Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'

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• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Power
  • Fight
  • Stand

• Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Life
  • Revolution
  • Continue

• The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Different
  • Partner

• Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Why
  • Trust
  • Should

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sales

• The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • You
  • Judge
  • Animals

• I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• When such acting powerhouses take note of your work and express their appreciation, it is an overwhelming feeling. I could not believe it when Rishi ji tweeted. Then Amitji and Rekha ma'am sent handwritten letters, which I have read more than fifty times. 'Dangal' is a very special film for me, and these are my lifetime treasure.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Feeling

• We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Think
  • Know
  • Appreciate

• I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • School
  • Home
  • Know

• They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Children

• Take My Picture, Hollywood! I Wanna Be a Star!

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Star
  • Picture

• The reflected world is the conquest of calm

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Calm

• Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
  • Long
  • Power

• Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

  

  Mena Suvari
  • Waiting
  • Television
  • Scripts

• I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.

  

  Steve McQueen
  • Get
  • Work Hard
  • Goodies

• I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World
  • True
  • Soul

• What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?

  

  Frank Grillo
  • Guy
  • Journey

• Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Legend