"Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes]."

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Source : "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

Alysia Reiner

#Issues Quotes #Two Quotes #Role Models Quotes

“Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.”

Source : Matthew Thomas (2014). “We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.”
“I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.”
“Always talk to God, never listen to the cops.”
“For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.”
“Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.”
“I know Okay, Sorry. I am. Look, I'm human. It's hard to be fair sometimes. We don't always feel the right thing, do the right thing”
“Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.”

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