Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

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.

Vanessa Redgrave

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 30, 1937

Topics

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I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

Jill Scott

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From the age of 8, I was running media campaigns on global issues back home in Australia. I was ever so slightly precocious. I would meet with senior Australian government officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, proposing various solutions to third-world debt and malnutrition.

Jeremy Heimans

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I thought Doodyville was inside of the television. You know, like, if television was this box - and if I went inside the box that was a television, I'd be in Doodyville.

Andy Kaufman

ThoughtYouTelevisionKnowInside

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

Jean Rhys

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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

John Updike

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Sometimes I think, 'I need to get married soon.' Other days I think, 'Why get married?'

Song Hye-kyo

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I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

Steve Zahn

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Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

Jose Ramos-Horta

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So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

Diane Wakoski

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We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.

Chelsea Peretti

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A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Christian Bale

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Plutocrats worldwide have readily understood the advantages of evading the burdens of the nation-state.

Chrystia Freeland

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