Martha Gellhorn Quotes
the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.
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In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.
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Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.
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If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.
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the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.
