"Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does."

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Source : Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

Helen Hayes

#Doe Quotes #Legends Quotes

“I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.”
“You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.”
“True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.”

Source : bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.229, Routledge
“I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rockâ€”clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipmentâ€”was an extension of this ethical viewpoint.”
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.”
“Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldnt let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career.”
“The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.”
“I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.”

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