"I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life."

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Source : "Fictional character: Martha Gellhorn". "Hemingway & Gellhorn", www.imdb.com. 2012.

Martha Gellhorn

#Footnotes Quotes

“We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.”
“People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.”

Source : "Mandelson's return: this is a bold and shrewd move" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2008.
“It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.”
“This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?”
“A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.”
“Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.”
“The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.”
“I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.”

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