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“Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.”

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Erica Jong

Erica Jong is a renowned American author, born on March 26, 1942. Her works, focusing on female perspectives and sexual liberation, have gained widespread popularity. Her representative works include 'How to Be a Woman'. more

“We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.”

Men Children Body News Fortune Access Reports Again And Again Proven Threatened Access To Education

Author:Erica Jong

“The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.”

Knows Two Turns Three Actors Term Lines Bottom Excited Bunch Producers Eggs Bottom Line Bad Times No Brainer

Author:Kathy Bates

“If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.”

Ifs Want Feels Actors Safe

Author:Stanley Tucci

“It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.”

Want Actors Audience Like You Exercise Aim Impulse

Author:Ethan Coen

“People are weird. We do live on all levels at the same time and you can be fighting and flirting, and there can be fury and sexual tension. All that stuff can co-exist so it's just a testament to how complex we are. Or maybe it's a testament to how boringly we try and simplify everything.”

People Trying Fighting Stuff Levels Complexes Tension Testament Flirting Fury Simplify

Author:Alice Eve

“I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.”

Want Girl Boys Groups

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.”

People Matter Play Character Faces Pretending

Author:Stanley Tucci

“You don't have to necessarily go down the drama school route, or have connections in the industry. You can just make it.”

School Industry Drama Connections Routes

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.”

Firsts Looks Different Running Film Actors Difficult Animal Casts Boring Right Thing Frustrating Wrong Things Trainers Prompts Different Experiences

Author:Ethan Coen

“When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.”

Trying Stories Possibility Damn Just One Damn Things

Author:Tom Hanks

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