- Drive
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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
- Entire Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For thousands of years, men have written history, so it seems to me that most of what we've read is from the male point of view.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.
- Good Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially, women only had to portray married wife roles on TV, but now there are show that are offering other roles to portray for women. Earlier, all drama used to revolve only around married women, which is not the case now. Even the male actors have a good opportunity for better roles now.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate. She's really been able to captivate men and women in a way that's appealing, which is a tough line to follow.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, 'Look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author.'
- Female
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated by female relationships.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't weigh myself. I don't have a scale in the house.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020