- Become
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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
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up with a bold feminist in my mother, I witnessed her march magnificently from mini to maxi, fashions so obviously linked to powerful statements of female progression, equality and recognition. I knew no other than freedom of expression in all the forms it came in; art, theatre, fashion, literature and music.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need more female voices to come out there and do comedy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020