Alison Bechdel Quotes
Ginger: I can't do this, Lois! I can't go out with a woman who has a child! I'm too young, I tell you! I haven't sown my oats yet!Lois: I think your oats are impacted.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.
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I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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For makeup, a bit of blusher - what you call bronzer - a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
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I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive - they don't need my blessing for that - but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset.
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You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
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If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.
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I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.
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A film can reach only the places which the distributor has promised you. Several films are not released internationally, and Web has that wide reach.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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I didn't feel particularly close to my father.
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Ginger: I can't do this, Lois! I can't go out with a woman who has a child! I'm too young, I tell you! I haven't sown my oats yet!Lois: I think your oats are impacted.
