Anita Diamant Quotes
If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.
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I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.
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I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is as well informed about, and invested in, the market as her male counterparts.
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My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
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As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.
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When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
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I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.
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My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
