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Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

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

Vanessa Redgrave

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Years Refugees Working Been

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Time Compassion Long Long Time Now

Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it's a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it's there, and you particularly notice it when it isn't. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal.

John Lanchester

Business Welcome People Restaurant

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

Law Problem Possession Nine-Tenths

You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.

Truth Performance You Find Real

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Life Love People Me My Life Year

Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues creates a context in which it can seem like one.

Serious Burden Difference Engage

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Space Set Giant Built Madman

My two best friends have gone through break-ups that were really hard, and I remember thinking, 'How could this be so hard and important to them?' Literally for months they were really upset and they couldn't get over it. I had no idea what it was like. And now that I've been through it, I totally understand.

Miranda Cosgrove

Best Thinking Friends Remember Upset

I think that 'Twilight' is so big that nothing can affect it.

Think Nothing Twilight Affect Big

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

Time Think Not Knowing You Knowing

I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Opportunity Best Day Man Believe

It's a huge mistake not to embrace social media. We need to stay in touch and stay relevant to young people.

Brian L. Roberts

Social Media Mistake People Media

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