Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
