Agnes Smedley Quotes

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

Agnes Smedley

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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

Saffron Aldridge
- Life
- Mother
- Morning
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
- Player
- End
- Doing
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

Samantha Shannon
- Book
- Think
- Want
You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.

Orlando Bloom
- May
- Movie
- Today
It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

Dakota Fanning
- People
- Time
- Great
We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

Ralph Steadman
- Think
- Control
- Seem