- Look
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really important that we take away the shame associated with female hair loss and hair balding. It's just another beauty issue that we all can get through as soon as we start to feel more comfortable talking about it.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an inadvertent clearinghouse for unsolicited love notes.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.
- Kings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020