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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Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to make the film, that's not such a stretch. But when you're doing plays like 'Proof,' it's just five people or something in the thing, and it gets to be a really difficult re-conception.
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Cycling has been my passion throughout my life.
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.
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the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.
