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Archive for September, 2006

Dolly Parton: highly sensitive

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

“I’m a very sensitive person. I hurt real easy and real deep, which is why I think I have to write songs, [and] why so many of them fit the feelings of so many people that can’t write. It’s because I feel everything to my core.”
Dolly Parton
> related blog: Highly Sensitive People
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Dolly Parton, high sensitivity [...]

Real success: Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen on their film company

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Flower Films was founded in 1994 by Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen, when Drew was 19. Their first production was Never Been Kissed (1999), followed by Charlie’s Angels, and others.
In a Vogue magazine interview [Feb 2006], Barrymore commented, “I knew what our intentions were, but they had nothing to do with success.
“Doesn’t matter how far [...]

Our culture still isn’t comfortable with women and power

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Working as a director in the 1950s, Ida Lupino commented,”You don’t tell a man; you suggest to them.” Ally Acker writes in her bio, “The back of her director’s chair read, ‘Mother Of Us All…’, a nom de plume that Ida Lupino solicited, encouraged and used fully to subversive advantage. It was her armor against [...]