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Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

English - Actress | January 30, 1937 -

Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.

Vanessa Redgrave

Politics You Wherever Come Subject

I've identified all my life with refugees.

Vanessa Redgrave

Life My Life Refugees All My Life

I think everybody, including myself, are in danger of losing our humanity.

Vanessa Redgrave

Myself Losing Think Humanity Danger

Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.

Vanessa Redgrave

Think Alive Human Precious Just

I don't think my life has been badly lived - but I don't think of it that way. And nor should I.

Vanessa Redgrave

Life Think My Life Way Lived Been

My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned in the Sea of Singapore, having been fighting for the Royal Navy behind enemy lines, Japanese lines, in the hinterland of Singapore.

Vanessa Redgrave

Father Sea Fighting Enemy Navy Been

The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.

Vanessa Redgrave

Father People City Safety Literature

You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It's not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.

Vanessa Redgrave

People Media You News Fault Get

I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.

Vanessa Redgrave

Start Story Plan Situation Refugees

I've been working for refugees for years and years and years.

Vanessa Redgrave

Years Refugees Working Been

I thought my story, my experiences as a 2-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of the war, could be important. What happened to me as a child was very light compared to what happened to many children, but... in Britain, there are so many people who just don't know our history.

Vanessa Redgrave

Children History Light War Child Me

I don't want to spend my last few whatever it is, months or years on this earth, giving speeches.

Vanessa Redgrave

Giving Earth Want Years Whatever

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