- Family
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.
- Nov 07, 2020
Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the secret of the world lies in the C major scale. The universe opens its doors when a major scale is played. There's stuff going on in a major scale that is a direct connection to divine, universal hugeness.
- Self-Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tell young girls they can be anything, including entrepreneurs and self-made billionaires. Encourage your friends/daughters/female students/yourself to take a shot.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.
- Bailing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.
- Hammerstein
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'
- Masculinity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Kris Kringle' is a holiday musical for a new generation - a gorgeous score paired with a heartwarming tale of family and forgiveness.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.
- Scale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020