"I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me."

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Source : TV Legends, August 6, 2005.

Bea Arthur

#Roles Quotes #Movement Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.”
“I wouldn't compare my sound on the mixtape to anything, but my influences are like - the minimal amount of hip-hop that I actually do know - because I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop like that. No one really put me on to hip-hop like that... My dad's from Jamaica and my mom is from Barbados, so that's really the stuff I grew up listening to.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I like to be glamorous so I love the clothing and the big entrances. It needs to be spectacular!”
“In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.”
“A lot of unpredictable things happened in the Republican party, but I think the notion that we're gonna demonize Donald Trump or we're gonna mischaracterize him is completely unfair.”
“Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.”
“And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.”
“If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.132, Granta Books

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