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Barbara Demick Quotes

In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.

Barbara Demick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

Family Mother Girl Child Me Boy

I don't really like those sorts of actresses who say, 'I don't want to make that movie,' but they make the movie. They just spend their time not liking being on a set and I just think it's absurd, because we are so lucky to do this job. When you accept to make a movie, just make the movie. And then it's more easy for relationships.

Melanie Laurent

Time Job Think Easy You Want

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

Steve Carell

Mistakes Everyone Flawed Makes

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

Alphonsus Liguori

Heart Humble You Never Reject

I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way.

Amanda de Cadenet

Life Women Age Think Learn Look

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

Suki Waterhouse

Beautiful Light Moving Believe New

At this point, I've really failed at a lot of things. It's nice to be able to say that, in a way. I've failed at music. I've failed at dance. And acting - there have been times when I went out and read lines to audition for acting parts. I believe that if anybody wrangled together those audition tapes, it would be pretty hysterically funny.

Steve-O

Funny Music Together Dance Believe

I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.

Topher Grace

Friends Social Just Most Very

How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'

Michael Leunig

Truth People Me Look Back Serious

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Leadership Better Back Next Even

We knew that they would probably go after someone.

Jon Johansen

Someone Go Would Knew After

What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of humbleness.

Donovan

Discipline Tradition Civilization Our

A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes.

Christian Louboutin

Good Beautiful Shoes Face Mask You