"I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to."

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Source : "Ann Dowd's One-Woman Oscar-Nomination Campaign". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. January 12, 2013.

Ann Dowd

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“Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'”
“There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.”
“Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.”

Source : Source: soccerlens.com
“I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!”
“I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'”
“It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.”

Source : "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.
“I'm not good with bullies and zealots.”
“As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born â€“ and particularly bad luck it is.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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