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"Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one."
"Being tough isn't in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used to being strong, and never tried to understand those who were weak. I was too used to being fortunate, and didn't try to understand those less fortunate. Too used to being healthy, and didn't try to understand the pain of those who weren't. Whenever I saw a person in trouble, somebody paralyzed by events, I decided it was entirely his fault""he just wasn't trying hard enough. People who complained were just plain lazy. My outlook on life was unshakable, and practical, but lacked any human warmth. And not a single person around me pointed this out.' - Miu."
"I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia."
"Every human being on earth is the same and our very being is crying out for same need."
"You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people."
"Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul."
Explore more quotes by Edward Dmytryk
"With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names."
"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
"I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines."
"I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust."
"I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee."
"I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end."
"The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing."
"Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity."
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