Laverty Quotes & Sayings

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled. — Hugh Mackay

I was more wishy-washy in the first 12 years of my career, just because that was my personality. — Shannyn Sossamon

With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written. — Eric Cantona

I know of a cure for everything: salt water ... in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. — Karen Blixen

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth. — William Zinsser

There is no such thing as a lover's oath. — Plato

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy. — Sergei Lavrov

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected. — Emmylou Harris

Twitter was created as an open platform, an open communications ecosystem, and I hope it can stay that way. You have to be really careful not to let money get in the way of that. — Mike McCue

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.' — Lupita Nyong'o

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there. — Vita Sackville-West

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Iraq war is a huge subject and there have been many films about it. But it was when the private contractors started taking over and taking responsibilities from the regular army, which hides the war. You have these private armies of mercenaries acting with immunity for their actions, the worst of which was the Blackwater case where they killed 17 Iraqi civilians and the guys who did it just went home. We [screenwriter Paul Laverty and Loach] felt this deserved a story. — Ken Loach