Ari Graynor Quotes
It shouldn't be an issue that we have a black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
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Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.
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There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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I don't think Kanye West can support his view that George W. Bush just doesn't care about black people. But it's a demonstrable matter of fact that Bush doesn't care much about black votes. And that, in the end, may amount to the same thing.
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Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.
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I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
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Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell.
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I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
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It shouldn't be an issue that we have a black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue.
