Alison Bechdel Quotes
Mo: My sister-in-law had her baby! I'm an aunt! My brother's a father! My mother's a grandma! My dad's a...Sydney: I think I can generalize from there.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.
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To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
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It's fun to sniff and slather on beauty products, but the end goal is finding what appeals most to 'Teen Vogue' readers and reporting on it in the most compelling way.
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I have not met a Filipino actor who didn't dream of working on an 'FPJ' remake.
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I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
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Mo: My sister-in-law had her baby! I'm an aunt! My brother's a father! My mother's a grandma! My dad's a...Sydney: I think I can generalize from there.
