Etty Hillesum Quotes

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

Etty Hillesum

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• I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Sell

• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Best
  • Made
  • Did

• The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Me
  • End
  • Scene

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Judge
  • Television
  • Indian

• Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Different
  • Home
  • Week

• At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Thinking
  • New
  • Ahead

• If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Lose
  • Terms

• The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • True
  • Perfect
  • Beauty

• Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Peace

• I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Moving

• Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Nature
  • Brave
  • Coward

• Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Different
  • Family
  • Attention

• Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • Today
  • Wish

• When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Hair

• We stand with the people of Taiwan and their democratic ways, and I am proud to be a part of reaffirming the unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act by the United States Congress.

  

  Eliot Engel
  • People
  • Proud
  • Commitment

• The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

  

  Bob Iger

• I think the film you hear about the most is 'The Exorcist.' When people come up to me and say, 'Oh, you scared me!' I was the good guy in that film!

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • World
  • War
  • True

• I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

  

  bell hooks
  • Life
  • Ignorance

• You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Responsibility

• There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Moving
  • Sports
  • Able

• I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

  

  Terrence McNally
  • Writing
  • School
  • Educate

• Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Writing
  • Word
  • Necessity