Hedda Sterne Quotes
I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
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Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious.
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Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
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I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.
