Eleanor Clift Quotes
You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
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It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.
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Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
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You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
