Ed Greer Quotes

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

I believe in permanent revolution.

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

My knees have always been ugly.

There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

The treatment for jaded sensibilities is not to shatter them, after all.

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

If you're going to be typed, there are worse molds in which you can be cast.

Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works.

I want to be on that thing that people watch while they're eating a quick dinner before they go out, or to cheer them up. I want to make people laugh every day, if I can.

In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

I didn't really think of role in those terms, like 'quirky best friend', when I read the script and when I came to the project.

I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.

I've done a lot of pilots, and they're all so expositional. In the beginning, I think that it is important to make sure that the audience is invested in us.

Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.

At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.

I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

I find that falling in love is way more fun than just having that instant attraction that you have to maintain for a relationship.

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see.

I think that it's just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that's completely written by one person, regardless of what any showrunner will tell you.

There are more than 4000 landing trace cases from around the world.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier, she seems to fade beside my mother.

Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.

...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off.

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly supervised and repressed if the desired result is to ensue.

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

Make sure that some aspects of your ideal day show up every day for you in business and in life.

If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way.