"One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career."

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Mercedes McCambridge

#Careers Quotes #Acting Quotes #Judgment Quotes

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”

Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.90, Melville House
“The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.”
“If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.”
“All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.”
“I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.”
“Professionally, it would be a logical choice, but my personal view is that he is the most insincere man I know in football”
“A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”
“It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?”

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