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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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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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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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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When you are working on a TV show or series, you just get into the routine. You get used to getting up early. It takes a few days, but once you are up and running, you get used to going home late, and it becomes this very repetitive cycle.
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
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My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.
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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
