Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.
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I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
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Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.
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What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.
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Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
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I do not want to answer provocative question.
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We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.
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People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
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I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
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No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.
