Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
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Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
