Lucy Walker Quotes
The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.
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The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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They say that women like a man who can make them laugh, and I find that if you can make a woman laugh on the first and second dates, then you're doing well.
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The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
