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What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#books #comic #comic books #complex #create

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#expected #gnarly #inevitably #living #might

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#comprehend #concepts #desired #elementary #few

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#any #bigger #complex #direction #fool

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#complexity #country #opposed #something #understanding

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#better #children #common #common sense #deserve

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#complex #delivering #even #fully #government

Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness. ↗

— Kyle Shewfelt

#also #awareness #body #excellent #flexibility

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#country #country music #form #get #hear