Alison Bechdel Quotes

Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week long. Tonight, I am going to vegetate in front of the TV. If you're so worried about Bosnia, go join the Red Cross.

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• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

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• I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.

  

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• There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

  

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• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

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• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

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• I love simplicity.

  

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• I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

  

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• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

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• I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.

  

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• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

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• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

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• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

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• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

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• It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

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• When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

  

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• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

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• My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

  

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• Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.

  

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• A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

  

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• I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought about as a kid but then remembered as a parent.

  

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• Men and women are like cats and dogs. I've learned more about myself from women. My comedy is based on this.

  

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• It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.

  

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• Sparrow: Listen, Mo. I have been doing crisis intervention with battered, homeless women and kids all week long. Tonight, I am going to vegetate in front of the TV. If you're so worried about Bosnia, go join the Red Cross.

  

  Alison Bechdel
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