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“A lot of women have come to understand that you can't just show up and say I'm unhappy, you have to then go out and do something.”

Shows Unhappy

Author:Cokie Roberts

“A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law.” Raphael’s look was priceless. “My mother is an insane archangel.”

Looks Law Mother Trouble Insane In-laws Priceless Archangel Mother In Law Raphael

Author:Nalini Singh

Source: Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4

“A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.”

Made Stills Made It Clients Respect Me

Author:Annie Sprinkle

“A lot of women in the summer nowadays are just a bunch of stuffed shorts.”

Summer Bunch Shorts

Author:Rod Brasfield

“A lot of women in the workplace are stuck in the uncomfortable place of having to come to terms with the fact that something isn't right, while no one around them will listen, or accept that something is wrong. Many workplaces have best practice, but sadly, many do not. The barriers are not insurmountable, but they are there, and we see that in the stats.”

Term Accepting Stuck Uncomfortable Barriers Workplace Insurmountable

Author:Tara Moss

“A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.”

Mother Choices Saws Reflection Work Out Rebellion Elders

Author:Ariel Gore

“A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'”

Thinking Men Guy Courses Deals Enemy Study Issues Female Males Magazines

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.”

Way Want Feels Trying Feelings Hot

Author:Delta Burke

“A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasnt such a big fan.”

Bigs Love Is Fans Pregnancy Pregnant Being In Love Being Pregnant

Author:Marion Jones

“A lot of women say to me, "Polly, why aren't there more clothes out there that we can wear?" And I don't agree with them! There are clothes out there that they can wear - it's just that they don't dare to wear them.”

Agree Dare

Author:Polly Allen Mellen

“A lot of women seem to have a similar attitude, - 'I'm not a feminist' - and it gets wearying. What's wrong with being a feminist? I'm proud to be a feminist. It's been one of the most positive things in my life. It's one of the best traditions there is. It's admirable to be a feminist and to stand up for one's sex, to fight against inequality and injustice and to work for a better society.”

Seems Fighting Sex Attitude Feminism Proud Tradition Injustice Feminist Inequality Admirable Positive Things

Author:Mary Stott

“A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab.”

Thinking Way Seems

Author:Gabrielle

“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.”

Thinking Way Want Kind Young Girl Feminism Worst Fashion Feminist These Days Young Women Girl Power Hideous Benign Fads

Author:Ani DiFranco

“A lot of women use pregnancy as an excuse to let their bodies go, and that's the worst thing.”

Use Body Worst Excuse Pregnancy Worst Things

Author:Tracy Anderson

“A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother.”

Want Important Kids Mother Wife Minutes One Day Married Who You Are Finding Yourself Being Married Women Want Wives And Mothers

Author:Sevyn Streeter

“A lot of women were betting on me because there were so few role models and I let them down. They had put me on a pedestal. I maybe enjoyed being in that limelight, but I couldn't reverse what I had done.”

Done Roles Models Enjoyed Role Models Reverse Pedestal Betting Limelight

Author:Paula Broadwell

“A lot of women were only taught to focus on their appetite [this is external things such as food, beauty, fashion, etc] while neglecting DESIRE.”

Desire Sensuality Sensual Womanhood

Author:Lebo Grand

“A lot of women will be sort of 'competitive like a guy' in the workplace, but then when they go home, they realize that's not fully authentic for them. They would like to have a more expansive or more authentic relationship in the workplace around competition.”

Home Guy Realizing Competition Workplace

Author:Michael Gurian

“A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.”

People Feels Different America Young Choices Easy Harder Very Good Complicated Founders Good Friend Life Choices Different Life Very Good Friends

Author:Zadie Smith

“A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.”

People Country Government Hate Wonderful Military

Author:William J. Clinton

“A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.”

Song Taken Melody Woody Rework

Author:John Mellencamp

“a lot of words here... that I don't understand.”

Podcast Critical Race Theory Podcast Personality

Author:Mikhaila Peterson

“A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.”

Ideas Electricity

Author:Laurie Anderson

“A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them”

Has Beens Found Environment Climate Change Careful Astronomy Fragile Be Careful Rare Things Work And Money

Author:John Gummer

“A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do.”

Thinking Want Doe I Can Able Night Energy Given Can Do Progress Pride Crowds Djs

Author:Avicii

“A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.”

Children Stills Ends Labor Slavery Remains Lifetime Child Labor Slave Labor Child Labour Slave Labour

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“A lot of work was done with one of my best friends and editor, Spencer Averick, who's edited everything I've ever made from the very, very first documentaries; the very, very first films I made were docs, so we learned the form together.”

Firsts Made Done Together Film Form Editors Documentaries My Best Friend Edited

Author:Ava DuVernay

“A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.”

Ifs Writing Wells Silence Fire Feet Prison Lakes Cabins Log Cabins

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.”

Artist Empty Cooking Kitchen Plates Chef Assurance

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. Whereas the chef makes cake and sometimes tastes it with a finger, but that's it - the rest is for the people.”

People Sometimes Artist Taste Empty Cooking Fingers Kitchen Cake Plates Chef Assurance

Author:Jonathan Santlofer

“A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice place to live. And a lot of writers who might not geographically reside in New York still point their ambitions towards New York in some sense.”

Stills Might Culture Nice New York Ambition Brooklyn Places To Live

Author:Chad Harbach

“A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.”

People Writing Christian Poor Rich Stupid Idiot Poor People Harvard Redneck

Author:Norm MacDonald

“A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to make them real in a certain way, because otherwise people won't read them. It's fine if some readers think of them as real. It's just not the way that I think of them.”

People Thinking Trying Real Character Wise People

Author:Dennis Cooper

“A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.”

People Giving Sometimes Fall Wind Falling In Love Sentences Construction Enlightening Gabriel Joyce Good Reads Marquez Garcia Marquez

Author:James Patterson

“A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.”

Knows Want Writing Firsts Book Childhood Your Children

Author:Tea Obreht

“A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life is a farce and we're all in it for ourselves and that the point of life is to amass as much money/fame/sexual gratification, you know, whatever your personal thing is, and that everything else is just glitter or PR image - that we're tired of sort of doing that stuff over and over again.”

Knows Kind Life Is Stuff Dark Fame Tired Hips Hypocrisy Gratification Glitter Exploding Farce Slick Personal Things

Author:David Foster Wallace

“A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.”

Ideas Feelings Share Stage Clothes Fundamentals Admire Fraud Emperor

Author:Damon Lindelof

“A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot.”

Feels Order Actors Performances

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.”

People Thinking Needs Trying Book Black Dark Dangerous Crime Realised

Author:Ian Rankin

“A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.”

People Writing Kids Mother Being A Mother

Author:Maggie Smith

“A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.”

Writing Action Form Term Seeing Landscape

Author:Jonathan Ames

“A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.”

Writing Effects Bounds Subconscious

Author:George R. R. Martin

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”

Enough Sad Tragedy Suicide Apathy

Author:Jay Asher

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why

“A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.”

Way Want Feels Trying Important Ideas Hard Enough Happens Success Young Choices Actors Important Things What You Want Broads Right Way Good And Bad Spectrum Young Actors Trying Too Hard

Author:Robert De Niro

“A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all”

Believe Looks Running Young Actors Scene Don't Believe Young Actors

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.”

Hard Young Careers Actresses Hard Times Reasonable Love Life Combining

Author:Britt Ekland

“A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.”

Thinking Want Looks Young Artist Stars Rocks Dad Musician Suits Rock Star Jackets Leather Young Artists Leather Jackets Tuxedos

Author:Paul Weller

“A lot of young artists in particular think you can just do one great thing and then sit back and collect checks. Most artists, even people like Dan Clowes, who's one of my heroes, don't just do comics. He does paid illustration. He writes screenplays, and so forth, working and selling lots of different things.”

People Thinking Writing Different Artist Hero Great Things Selling My Hero

Author:Nicole Georges

“A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.”

People Ideas Stories America Film Form Young Black Hollywood Application Black People Brazil

Author:Haile Gerima

“A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.”

Today Young Influence Movement Trends Chef Carried Away

Author:Daniel Boulud

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