Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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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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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Don't let expertise fool you into seeing false boundaries or underestimating those with wild dreams.
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I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
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Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.
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Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.
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Most women's races don't pay much at all.
