Warren Farrell Quotes
Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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I can't just say yes to a movie. I have to be really passionate about it.
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The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.
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Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
