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My ideal date would involve a park or rowing in those little boats on a lake.
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I love Haagen Daaz Caramel Cone, or the Ben and Jerry's Strawberry Cheesecake. Pairs well with a...
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If I had a free afternoon, I would play music, sit in my backyard, and drink coffee.
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TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really insp...
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The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don't know if it's getting better fast enough...
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I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thin...
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By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' b...
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I really appreciate that: to walk into an environment where everyone is serious and dedicated to cre...
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Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.
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I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and ...
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There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved ...
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I have a girl crush on Olivia Munn so much, especially on 'Newsroom.' And Cara Delevingne, b...
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I've never given my phone number to someone on the street, but when someone is a gentleman, I ap...
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I always think - when I get mad, and people say, 'Don't be the angry black woman' - it&#...
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When I was younger, it was harder for me to find a black eyeliner that would actually show up on my ...
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Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.
AJA NAOMI KING

As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is real...
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Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so...
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Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects t...
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We all have our family issues from time to time.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak, so it's been nice to learn to let go and just trust oth...
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I've been trying to eat healthier, but sometimes it doesn't work out when you're sitting...
AJA NAOMI KING

A man should be well groomed. If you're going to have facial hair, it should be a choice, not an...
AJA NAOMI KING

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.
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It gets a little crazy at Disneyland. It's a little bit more hardcore then people think.
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Create something for yourself that you feel proud of, that you are in control of, that gives you a b...
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Love is a complicated emotion because you can learn something or hear something that goes against wh...
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Diversity is such an interesting word. I feel like when people hear the word 'diversity,' th...
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I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, ...
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I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that...
AJA NAOMI KING We try to make choices and do things with our career that make a positive impact. We want to have lo...
AJA GRAYDON At the core of who we are is the roots of those that have influenced our lives the most and the impa...
AJA GRAYDON The main accomplishment is they made their vows, 'til death do us part,' and they were married for 5...
AJA GRAYDON The students would not only get help with the FCAT they will also get a mentor who will listen and r...
AJA WATKINS Because society tends to focus more on the negative aspects of our black youth, like stealing, fight...
AJA WATKINS Kids are fun to be around. Just like you can teach them, they can teach you. Basically, if we don't ...
AJA WATKINS We celebrate our marriage and family. We don't hide our wedding rings.
AJA GRAYDON In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no...
ALEXANDRE AJA When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not ...
ALEXANDRE AJA Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was ok...
ALEXANDRE AJA I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more trauma...
ALEXANDRE AJA The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands wh...
ALEXANDRE AJA Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn'...
ALEXANDRE AJA When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
ALEXANDRE AJA Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
ALEXANDRE AJA A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.
ALEXANDRE AJA I'm a huge fan of movies, and I watch DVDs all day, and I like to be able to watch DVDs that are...
ALEXANDRE AJA I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. ...
NAOMI WATTS

The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what i...
NAOMI WOLF

In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sne...
NAOMI WOLF

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Wa...
NAOMI WOLF

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by ...
NAOMI WOLF

From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for wom...
NAOMI WOLF

It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, an...
NAOMI WOLF

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks l...
NAOMI WOLF

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to...
NAOMI WOLF

What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives ...
NAOMI WOLF

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and ...
NAOMI WOLF

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and...
NAOMI WOLF

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual....
NAOMI WOLF

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and m...
NAOMI WOLF

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing u...
NAOMI WOLF

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu...
NAOMI WOLF

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated bet...
NAOMI WOLF

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves fu...
NAOMI WOLF

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening dem...
NAOMI WOLF

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the ...
NAOMI WOLF

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, w...
NAOMI WOLF In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as ...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of the...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's sli...
NAOMI WATTS Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and ...
NAOMI WATTS Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
NAOMI WATTS Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so ma...
NAOMI WATTS It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer...
NAOMI WATTS It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I tol...
NAOMI WATTS There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, ...
NAOMI WATTS Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref...
NAOMI WATTS There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to def...
NAOMI WATTS If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women,...
NAOMI WATTS Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
NAOMI WATTS Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.
NAOMI WATTS Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieve...
NAOMI WATTS I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, ...
NAOMI WATTS I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
NAOMI WATTS I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has...
NAOMI WATTS There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do you...
NAOMI WATTS As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit rec...
NAOMI WATTS There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna ...
NAOMI WATTS I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not...
NAOMI WATTS I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
NAOMI WATTS You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
NAOMI WATTS My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise abou...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails.
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
NAOMI SCOTT I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they'r...
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, ...
NAOMI SCOTT All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.
NAOMI SCOTT There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
NAOMI SCOTT Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and &#...
NAOMI SCOTT I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ...
NAOMI SCOTT

I don't take vacations.
NAOMI JUDD

I'm a darned good listener.
NAOMI JUDD

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
NAOMI JUDD

I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like w...
NAOMI JUDD

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have...
NAOMI JUDD

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being d...
NAOMI JUDD

I'm a communicator.
NAOMI JUDD

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
NAOMI JUDD

We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
NAOMI JUDD

When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, becau...
NAOMI JUDD

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
NAOMI JUDD

It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever k...
NAOMI JUDD

I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
NAOMI JUDD

I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense...
NAOMI JUDD

It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both t...
NAOMI JUDD

Your body hears everything your mind says.
NAOMI JUDD

I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
NAOMI JUDD

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number...
NAOMI JUDD

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
NAOMI JUDD

There are many paths but only one journey.
NAOMI JUDD

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in mysel...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept w...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my mo...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not gett...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, '...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, r...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
NAOMI CAMPBELL

My features are completely ethnic.
NAOMI CAMPBELL The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. If we don't get the money fast enough to r...
AL NAOMI The water does circulate out of the basin eventually. But it depends a lot on meteorological conditi...
AL NAOMI It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to neg...
AL NAOMI I can't go above it by law. That's what I am authorized to do. Anything above that means I have to s...
AL NAOMI If you don't install some type of substantial hurricane protection along the Gulf coast it's going t...
AL NAOMI We can't even get in there to have a chance to look at that and see the condition of the infrastruct...
AL NAOMI They did not contribute to the flooding of the city.
AL NAOMI It's not a significant decrease but it's not rising any more. It will still take a while to get the ...
AL NAOMI As I remember it, the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It...
AL NAOMI As I remember it the worst of the storm had passed when we got word the floodwall had collapsed. It ...
AL NAOMI Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perh...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
NAOMI KLEIN

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
NAOMI WOLF A typical minority group stereotype -- woman as nigger -- if she knows her place (home), she is real...
NAOMI WEISSTEIN I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I w...
NAOMI NOVIK Fundamentally, the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alte...
NAOMI KLEIN

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap ...
NAOMI WOLF

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about...
NAOMI WOLF

The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a w...
NAOMI WOLF

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be bl...
NAOMI WOLF

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and c...
NAOMI WOLF

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevent...
NAOMI WOLF

We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were...
NAOMI WOLF

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
NAOMI WOLF

Women could probably be trained quite easily to see men first as sexual things. If girls never exper...
NAOMI WOLF

Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the...
NAOMI WOLF

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
NAOMI WOLF

A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for he...
NAOMI WOLF

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotage...
NAOMI WOLF

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provoke...
NAOMI WOLF

Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalit...
NAOMI WOLF

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled ...
NAOMI WOLF

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
NAOMI WOLF

Sometimes it's good to go to war, just to know you can
NAOMI ALDERMAN

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain...
NAOMI WOLF

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
NAOMI WOLF And listen to me: what you’ve done here carries power with it, of a different sort. Don’t let So...
NAOMI NOVIK I hated her; I wanted her to burn, the way so many of the corrupted had burned, because she’d put ...
NAOMI NOVIK No one was enchanted beyond saving in the songs. The hero always saved them. There was no ugly momen...
NAOMI NOVIK There's no kindness in offering false hope.
NAOMI NOVIK I don't think I can do it alone," I said. I had a feeling the Summoning wasn't really meant t...
NAOMI NOVIK I wanted to rub handprints through his dust
NAOMI NOVIK But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. Sh...
NAOMI NOVIK We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.
NAOMI NOVIK I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.
NAOMI NOVIK What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.
NAOMI NOVIK Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradit...
NAOMI GOODMAN The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.
NAOMI KLEIN

To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.

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