Alison Bechdel Quotes
Toni: Well... straight couples get respect when they marry. Maybe we need to make some kind of symbolic affirmation of our commitment to one another!Clarice: You mean...Toni: Yes! Let's open a joint checking account!Clarice: Oh, darling! But this is so sudden!

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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I am very much a Republican.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I've been very lucky.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
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How can an opera express this complicated question of bedsheets?
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Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
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The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.
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I do think that she [Hillary Clinton] will prove that she's the best, whether she's in the White House or somewhere else. I think it will very much be a historic moment, when we are able to say that we actually have done something like put a woman in the White House. Its very interesting to think about considering its taken us long as it has.
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Toni: Well... straight couples get respect when they marry. Maybe we need to make some kind of symbolic affirmation of our commitment to one another!Clarice: You mean...Toni: Yes! Let's open a joint checking account!Clarice: Oh, darling! But this is so sudden!