Trotta Quotes

#1. Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.

Joseph Roth

#2. Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

Liz Trotta

#3. The military is not a social services operation or a testing ground for gender wars. It is a fighting machine. Women are not as strong as men. Their instincts and reactions in crises are markedly different.

Liz Trotta

#4. I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

John Perry Barlow

#5. I'm intolerant often, especially of incompetence, particularly my own.

Liz Trotta

#6. I'm a huge fan of 'Kung Fu Panda.' I honestly think that Jack Black's voice work in 'Kung Fu Panda' is the best voice work that's ever been done. He's so funny, and it's such an endearing character. It really is great.

John Requa

#7. You can't stop the Dark Push.

Roberto Trotta

#8. I'm very apolitical. I mean, after having covered politicians so much all my life, I basically have no belief in politics. But it's more of an attitude and a discipline in the way you approach life, I think, than it is just what lever you pull in a voting booth.

Liz Trotta

#9. I don't believe in luck ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

Janet Jackson

#10. I'm one of these people who doesn't say that objectivity is not within our reach. I think if you're a pro, and you're a reporter, you do it. Whether you agree with the guy or not is just quite incidental. It doesn't count at all, really.

Liz Trotta

#11. I am not in favor of killing - that for me is the line not to be crossed.

Margarethe Von Trotta

#12. And now, Your Majesty," said Strange, "I think it is time we returned to the Castle. You and I, Your Majesty, are a British King and a British magician. Though Great Britain may desert us, we have no right to desert Great Britain. She may have need of us yet.

Susanna Clarke

#13. I've noticed that men get unhappy about women talking about something other than men, or love, or babies.

Margarethe Von Trotta

#14. Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Jessica Mitford

#15. Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

Jack Germond

#16. I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and can even understand some forms of property crime.

Margarethe Von Trotta

#17. I never judge, I just show. I am not saying, Do not do that.

Margarethe Von Trotta

#18. To love makes one solitary.

Virginia Woolf