Antonia Fraser Quotes
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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The writer is all alone.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
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When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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I'm glad I was never an heiress.
