Eleanor Smeal Quotes
I mean this is not like a very dry political book. This is - it was a very quick and entertaining and interesting read because there were so many stories, at least for me, of real women and - and sort of the issues that they face, and her commitment to wanting to help them.

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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
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I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.
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I mean this is not like a very dry political book. This is - it was a very quick and entertaining and interesting read because there were so many stories, at least for me, of real women and - and sort of the issues that they face, and her commitment to wanting to help them.