Wendell Willkie Quotes
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
Quotes to Explore
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
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We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
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For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.
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Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
