English - Actress | January 30, 1937 -
I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.
Vanessa Redgrave
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I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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A film can open hearts and minds that have been closed, for whatever reasons.
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People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.
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Principles aren't something you hear much from politicians these days. Have you noticed? Right across the board, leaders, whatever the political coloring, avoid talking about laws; they avoid talking about principles. They talk about 'our values.' But values can change, and all our packets of 'values' seem to be getting smaller.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
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We are child-bearers primarily, and we are the weaker sex, and once we've given birth to our children, our life is by necessity bound to them. I wouldn't advocate it any other way.
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