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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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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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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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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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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I didn't feel self conscious 'cause my sisters and I all had thick brows, and by the time I got to the age that I could be self conscious about them, they were in style!
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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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A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.
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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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This letter writing is a miserable way of communicating, after all, though I would not on any account be deprived of it. But when ones soul is full, and only a little sheet, to put it into, it is so aggravating. There are so many things I want to say, and feel with you, that I dont know where to begin.
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.
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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.
