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Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#after #cases #civilized #civilized society #defense

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#biography #forms #game #hunting #like

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. ↗

— David Guterson

#became #block #i #paralyzed #writer

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#brought #country #criticized #democratization #dictator

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#fun #going #great #had #i

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#books #decided #got #i #job

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#because #before #confusing #fame #great

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#fun #increasingly #mean #more #specialized

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#food #gorgeous #got #hit #how

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#better #biggest #both #britain #each