Arlie Russell Hochschild Quotes
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'

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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Thus it is a very serious lapse in scholarly competence and/or intellectual integrity for someone like Dawkins, an Oxford don who sees fit to pour scorn on the scholarly acumen and intellectual honesty of others, to treat the Five Ways as if they constituted Aquinas’s complete case for God’s existence, to ignore Aquinas’s responses to various objections, and to tell his readers that Aquinas gives “absolutely no reason” for certain claims that, as I have said, he actually devotes many hundreds of pages to defending.
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It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.
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Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'