Yance Ford Quotes

When I was young, I didn't see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies.

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• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Rights
  • Unions

• Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Now

• A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • She
  • Woman
  • Body

• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Desire
  • Alone
  • Moment

• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • God
  • Always
  • Teeth

• You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Dying
  • Bored

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Family
  • Best
  • Sense

• Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Done
  • Going
  • Unemployment

• I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Happy
  • Kind
  • Always

• I put my heart in my work.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Put

• At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Period
  • Being
  • Height

• You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Present

• Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• When trust improves, the mood improves.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Trust
  • Mood
  • Improves

• The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Great
  • Cancer
  • Walk

• Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• When I first got famous in the '60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Famous

• There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Guy

• ... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Phenomenon
  • Credence
  • Dictum

• Every great story leaves you questioning. If all of the questions are answered, and everything is resolved, it's boring. There's nothing to talk about afterwards.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Great

• When I was young, I didn't see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies.

  

  Yance Ford