Judith Rossner Quotes
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
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For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.
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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
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We'll never forget you, Mary Poppins!
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."
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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
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The bathing suits they had me wear on Baywatch were all one-pieces, which kill my figure.
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It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.