Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.
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I never took to Hollywood.
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Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.
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Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.
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I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
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the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.
