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You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.


Helena Bonham Carter


#angry #because #become #certain #club

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.


Paulo Coelho


#being #contemplation #developed #developing #ended

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.


Cyril Connolly


#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.


Angela Davis


#alliance #another #around #called #case

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.


Jimmy Wales


#constant #direction #generally #governments #headed

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.


Edmund Waller


#does #fancy #head #invade #keeps

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.


Evelyn Waugh


#almost #crime #desire #due #expression

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.


Simone Weil


#hideous #justice #modern #modern society #more

The seed of revolution is repression.


Woodrow Wilson


#revolution #seed

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments.


Lawrence Wright


#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference






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