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Quotes by Laurie Simmons

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Your ringtone is so personal to you, but the fact is millions of other people have your ringtone. I really love that connection, and call me crazy, but I find the iPhone ringtones super melodic and very danceable.
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I can't even relate to the idea of raising a feminist.
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I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.
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My subject has always been women. And I don't want to sound, like, preposterously idealistic, but I would like, in my lifetime, to experience a world where women, all kind of women, can connect and support each other.
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There's part of our culture where uniqueness is celebrated and appreciated and another part of our culture where this one way to be - one color hair, one sized breasts, one kind of nose - that's also front and center.
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I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.
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I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.
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Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.
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I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.
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I don't like touching things that are the curatorial flavor of the month.
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