Martha Gellhorn Quotes
What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
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Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
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I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
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I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
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What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
