Martha Gellhorn Quotes
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I am tone deaf.
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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
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It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.
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Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.
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Looks fade. Brains don't.
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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
