"I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust."

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Source : Edward Dmytryk (1978). “It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living”, Crown

Edward Dmytryk

#Party Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Careers Quotes

“Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.”
“I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.”
“The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.”
“I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.”

Source : Interview with John DeBellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.
“I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.”

Source : "The Women of Hollywood Speak Out" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2015.
“When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.”
“I'm superstitious ... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.”
“In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.”

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