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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I'm only a human being.
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To make more plans than an explorer or a crook, yet to be infected at the will's very root.
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I have signed the personhood petition. I have taken the petitions to my church and circulating into my church. And I have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.
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I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.
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Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
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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.'