Geraldine James It’s fine to be an older man in my business, but not an older woman. I think of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ films, which had four or five leading men who were over 60 and the oldest woman was Cate Blanchett. – Geraldine James Blanchett Quotes Business Quotes Cate Quotes Films Quotes Fine Quotes Leading Quotes Lord Quotes Rings Quotes Woman Quotes My daughter always came first and I got used to my agent saying, when I turned down this or that project because of her, ‘Oh yes, of course’ rather glumly. It was all about priorities. I went to a terrifying boarding school and everyone was a brilliant singer or musician or artist, and I wasn’t good at any of those things, so I became the school clown. Someone spotted me, cast me as the Artful Dodger in a play and that was it.
Jason Isbell Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you’re not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it’s understood. – Jason Isbell
Gloria Steinem The question of whether one has one’s own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question. – Gloria Steinem
Maya Lin You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won’t necessarily help you in making art. – Maya Lin
David Ige We want the people of Japan to know that the people of Hawaii welcome them to the Hawaiian Islands. – David Ige
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