Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
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In labor and delivery, things can go really bad very quickly, sometimes in a case of seconds
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.
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travel is compost for the mind
