Allison Pearson Quotes
My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.
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I've played a lot of weird women. I play crazy ladies, and I've played a lot of insane women and weird best friends that are not sexually desirable.
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My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.
