Henry St. John Quotes
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.
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My family are my friends.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
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She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.
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When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
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Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!
