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Empathy is the key to great stories.
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Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.
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Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn ***** when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
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I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
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I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
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When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.
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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.
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The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
