Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

Jim Jarmusch

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The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

Joe Namath

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Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

Amy Bloom

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You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out.

Tony Fadell

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Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the purse strings, the Cubs win the economic World Series every year.

Tom Morello

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It's always good to see the world; always good to see new places. When I'm sitting at home, one of the great things is when my daughter and I watch TV, and when she sees or hears about a place for the first time, I tell her, 'Daddy's been there!'

Roman Reigns

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Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

Mary Garden

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The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

Michael Vick

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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

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I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Jonathan Davis

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My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.

Dom DeLuise

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Chemo does its best to make you lose your femininity. You lose your hair. You lose your eyelashes. You lose your eyebrows.

Debbie Rowe

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