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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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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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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I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William's wedding. And I never miss the Queen's speech on Christmas Day. I feel it's my duty as an English-born woman to watch.
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I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.
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Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
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Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.
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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.
