Vera Brittain Quotes
If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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We live by our values at Levo. We began by surrounding ourselves with passionate, values-driven people who had their intentions in the right place, and learned that like attracted like.
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A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.
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New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'
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If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.
