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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The first thing I ever auditioned for was a movie called 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.' And, this is kind of a secret, but it came down between me and the one other kid for it, but I didn't get it, so.
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The independent companies tend to be successful in areas that the majors stay away from - then they get nabbed.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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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.
