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- Nov 07, 2020
Ale Quotes
A small, varied set of reflections.
This is a modest, loosely connected collection, grounded mainly in a historical comparison of the scale of wartime scientific effort between two countries. Other entries touch briefly on film ratings and the kinds of scripts actors look for. Related quotes appear in our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was cast in commercials, music videos, and booked a lot of modeling jobs. But my acting career never took off because I was holding myself back. I was acting across from male partners who didn't know that I am trans. I was being taught by teachers who didn't know.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.'
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn't have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.
- Mergers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get talent and scale from mergers.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
- Not Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republican party is not perfect, but if you put this party's record of achievements on one side of a balance scale and the Democrat's record on the other, the Republican side would slam the table.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
My school, we affectionately nicknamed it Avonjail, but it was called Avondale, Avondale high school in Stockport. I left with no GCSEs above a D.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020