"Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it."

--

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#Peace Quotes #Real Quotes #War Quotes

“There is age discrimination, but I think there are two kinds. One is when the employer is discriminating for specific reasons and doing it intentionally. The other is where you have managers who really aren't looking to discriminate but feel a little on edge because the candidate they're talking to is older. Sometimes they can even smell age concern on the part of the candidate and they wind up discriminating almost unconsciously.”
“I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.”
“About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.”
“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”
“Once the movie's over, there's not much point. When the thing is edited, mixed, and color-corrected, and you've finished it... In my case, I never read anything about it, I never think about it.”
“Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment, history and tradition, the amenities and civilities, the privacy and spaciousness of life, much beauty, and the fragile, slow-growing social structures that bind us together.”

Source : "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.
“Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.”
“I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.”

You may also like:

Caroline Knapp
Writer
Caryl Rivers
Novelist
Claud Cockburn
Journalist
Dorothy Thompson
Journalist
Flora Lewis
Journalist
Julie Gregory
Author
Mary McGrory
Journalist
Michael Kinsley
Journalist
Sinclair Lewis
Novelist