"Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote."

-- Susan Jane Gilman

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“My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.”
“I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.”

Source : "Same Vest? Q&A: Kyle MacLachlan on 'Portlandia'". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. January 4, 2013.
“To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.”
“horses: dangerous on both ends and crafty in the middle”
“I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.”
“Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.”

Source : Marina Warner (1987). “Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form”, Picador
“We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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