Alison Bechdel Quotes
Lois: Good coffee, huh?Emma: Lois, I think you're a very attractive woman and I'd like to sleep with you.Lois: chokes Gak! Ahem! You don't - coff - fool around, do you?Emma: No, but I'd like to.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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Making music is fantastic.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
What you see is what you get.
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Be thou erect, or be made erect.
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We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.
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I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.
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Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
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I don't enjoy doing stand-up. I see it as being like exercise: I feel good about it after I've done it.
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Lois: Good coffee, huh?Emma: Lois, I think you're a very attractive woman and I'd like to sleep with you.Lois: chokes Gak! Ahem! You don't - coff - fool around, do you?Emma: No, but I'd like to.
