Eleanor Clift Quotes
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
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One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
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My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.
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He has a childlike, boyish, impish, mischievousness. And I have to try and make him behave properly, like a holy man!
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Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
