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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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 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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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 just like interacting with people.
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My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'
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I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.
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I used to think that only people who were crazy were attracted to the desert, but once you've lived there, you become that way anyway.
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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.
