Jessica Mitford Quotes
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness – people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
