"Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready."

-- Shannon Lucid

#Stars Quotes #Pay Quotes #Female Quotes

“Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.”
“It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.”
“You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.”
“Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.”
“Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic.”
“Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.”
“Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
“Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.”

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