Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
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I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
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I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.
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I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on the cover.
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I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.
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Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
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Great stories are still just great yarns. News remains the best human drama ever. Technology is not changing the story; it is just changing the way in which we deliver it.
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We sing for these kids who don't have a thing.
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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
