Anne Sexton Quotes
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!
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I wouldn't say I'm bigger than Jesus. If I had to guess, I'd say probably, yeah, but as far as I know, the bible is never clear on this.
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L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
