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Vanessa Redgrave
English
Actress
Born:
Jan 30
,
1937
Been
Being
Life
People
Think
You
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
Vanessa Redgrave
You
Right Questions
Find
Answers
Questions
Ask
Right
I don't think my life has been badly lived - but I don't think of it that way. And nor should I.
Vanessa Redgrave
Life
My Life
Think
Way
Has-Been
Badly
Been
Nor
Should
Lived
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Vanessa Redgrave
Success
Integrity
Summer
Months
Perishable
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave
People
Feelings
See
Shakespeare
Undergoing
Real
Real People
Processes
Us
Lets
Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
Vanessa Redgrave
People
Living
Alive
Stay
Poetry
Go
Were
Want
Theater
Helped
Politics is about divisions. Wherever you come in on the subject, there are divisions.
Vanessa Redgrave
Politics
You
About
Divisions
Come
Subject
Wherever
I think everybody, including myself, are in danger of losing our humanity.
Vanessa Redgrave
Myself
Humanity
Losing
Think
Everybody
Our
Danger
Including
Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.
Vanessa Redgrave
Think
Alive
Staying
Precious
Infinitely
Human
Just
Being
The stories of the first refugees that I ever came across in literature - that lots of people ever came across - were in 'The Iliad': the escape of Aeneas with his father on his back, the Trojans, from their burning city, and the defeat of their kingdom and what they had to do to try and find safety.
Vanessa Redgrave
People
Safety
Try
Father
First
Defeat
Back
City
Find
Kingdom
Had
Came
Were
His
Lots
Escape
Refugees
Stories
Burning
Literature
Across
Iliad
Ever
People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.
Vanessa Redgrave
People
Preaching
Rubbish
Total
About
Absolutely
Talk
Forever
Being
Which
Converted
Thing
You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It's not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.
Vanessa Redgrave
News
You
People
Fault
Get
Just
News Media
Even
Media
Hardened
Harder
I didn't plan that there'd be this awful situation in which our European governments, just to start the story off, breaking the Geneva conventions on the protection on the human rights of refugees.
Vanessa Redgrave
Rights
Protection
Situation
Human Rights
Our
Geneva
Off
Governments
Human
Refugees
Just
Conventions
Story
Which
Breaking
Plan
European
Awful
Start
I've been working for refugees for years and years and years.
Vanessa Redgrave
Been
Years
Years And Years
Refugees
Working
I thought my story, my experiences as a 2-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of the war, could be important. What happened to me as a child was very light compared to what happened to many children, but... in Britain, there are so many people who just don't know our history.
Vanessa Redgrave
War
Me
History
People
Light
Thought
Important
Our
London
Could
Outset
Know
Very
Child
So Many People
Just
Children
Experiences
Happened
Story
Who
Many
Compared
Britain
I acted with Albie at Stratford-on-Avon in the 1959 season. We in the acting company tended to hang out at the pub known as the Dirty Duck.
Vanessa Redgrave
Out
Dirty
Known
Duck
Hang
Pub
Acted
Acting
Company
Season
I got my first film break because the director Karel Reisz saw me at a small theater party.
Vanessa Redgrave
Me
Director
First
Party
Saw
Small
Because
Got
Break
Theater
Film
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