Shirley Hazzard Quotes

There is always somebody to believe in any one who is uppermost.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

You know the press and the TV. There are those who are favourites and those who are not. I was one of the latter.

It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

You know, if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

You have got to convince people, the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media, is never going to support us, and if you continue to define political success as the media supporting us and not supporting a Democrat, you're never gonna be happy, because that's never going to happen. And if that remains your measure of success, then you're gonna get fooled each and every time.

At my lowest moments, I think of people who come to shows. I still get very sad and sometimes I feel like I have no friends, but when that happens now, I'll think of people whose names or faces I don't know - they're my friends and they love me. I've got them. It really does save me. I still feel awkward, but that's the one thing I can grab onto at my lowest points.

There are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in the USA on a daily basis.

I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

I'm lucky right now because I'm not that famous, people will look at the work just as the work, and people respond to it pretty well. It's just hard to know exactly what group I need to meet and where I need to be. I think fame helps, but I want it to be separate as much as it can. Fame is just so weird, people just love famous people.

People say we need royalty. We have royalty in the United States - the Kardashians.

There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."