Judith Rossner Quotes

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

Judith Rossner

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• All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

  

  Samantha Fox
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• Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Sometimes
  • Person
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• Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
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• Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

  

  Samantha Smith
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• It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Animals
  • Medical

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Family
  • Born
  • Far

• At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Children
  • Small
  • Moment

• I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • People
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  • School

• If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Film
  • Moment
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• I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Know

• For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
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• But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Experiences
  • Generations
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• We'll never forget you, Mary Poppins!

  

  P. L. Travers

• We learn only to ask more questions.

  

  Larry Niven

• If your not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Cute
  • Cheer

• My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

  

  Craig McDean
  • Inspiration

• I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Home
  • Book
  • Philosophy

• Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Nations
  • Parliament
  • Procedures

• It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

  

  Judith Rossner
  • Courage
  • Kill
  • Stay