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Scilla Elworthy Quotes

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.

Scilla Elworthy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 3, 1943

Topics

Democracy World Colleagues Violence

My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.

Work Family Hard Work Money Job

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

Spiritual I Am People Me Know See

How could somebody be comfortable with authorizing legally the use of lethal force? My view is if you become comfortable with it, then you should get out of the job.

Job View You Comfortable Become Out

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

Jennifer Aniston

Good I Am Writing Reality Just

Despite the growing evidence of health benefits associated with coffee consumption, I still don't recommend my patients drink it - not because it's not healthy, but because there are even healthier choices.

Health Coffee Choices Healthy Drink

'Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there.

Love Good Responsibility Me Long

You need to suffer to be interesting.

Alyson Hannigan

Interesting You Need Suffer

So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.

People Song Three Will Write Going

My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.

Job Wife Animal Me Society Elephant

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

Feel Become Audience Share Take

I want to play for years.

Play Want Years

There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies.

Movies Way More Just Like Than

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