"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."

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Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress [1853-1854].”, p.18

Gerrit Smith

#Rights Quotes #Turkeys Quotes #Nonsense Quotes

“I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.”
“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'”
“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
“When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.”

Source : "Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Yuh Nelson: Newest Members of a Very Small Club". Interview with Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 8, 2011.
“It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.”
“I need this wild life, this freedom.”
“Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.”
“I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.”

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