Martha Gellhorn Quotes
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.
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We're more effective than birth control pills.
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Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.
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I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
