"To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension."

-- Joan Didion

#Believe Quotes #Ethical Quotes #Certain Quotes

“Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.”
“One of the reasons why people in the west are nervous is they are reading the Koran, and the life of Mohammed and he is a prophet that declared he was victorious through terror and that is disturbing to people.”
“Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.”
“I'm not much of a storyteller with words!”

Source : Source: www.popmatters.com
“When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.”
“Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path”
“The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.”

Source : "84 years an actor". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2014.

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