"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

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Source : Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

Lillian Hellman

#Fashion Quotes #Peace Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.”
“What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.”
“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.”
“You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.”
“Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.”
“Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.”

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“The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.”

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