Gwen Stefani Quotes
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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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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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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There are limits put on women, but why should there be?
