"The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things."

-- Martha Gellhorn

#Race Quotes #Quality Quotes #Survivor Quotes

“Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.”
“I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.”
“When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.”

Source : "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.
“...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.”
“The Beatles will go on and on.”
“... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.”
“You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.”
“When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.”

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