Geraldine Jewsbury Quotes
society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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He was naming the groups that were pro-war. No one minds his naming the British or the Administration. But to name 'Jew' is un-American - even if it is done without hate or even criticism. Why?
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So, to reward him for his run (As it was baking hot, And he was over twenty stone), The King proceeded, half in fun, To knight him on the spot.
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We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.
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I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.
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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
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A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
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There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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You don't always have to start over to create an emotional reaction to your product. It's always powerful to deliver a breakthrough, but there's also a true art to making something great even better.
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People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
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society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.
