Joseph McCabe Quotes
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Western films don't do very well in India.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
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The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
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Sometimes in politics and even in life you need to take the tough and difficult decisions which you know would be good for you and the country in the medium and long term
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You need a core inside you-a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.
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Most things still remain to be done!
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Good wine needs no bush,And perhaps products that people really want need nohard-sell or soft-sell TV push.Why not?Look at pot.
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The turtle trapped 'twixt plated decks Doth practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
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Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their loved ones. Family meant something. Spouses meant something.
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Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.
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The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.
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No pope ever condemned slavery.
