Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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We just here to do our job.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
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By the 1970s, the American woman was being called ‘liberated’ or ‘superwoman’ while the American man was being called ‘baby killer’ if he fought in Vietnam, ‘traitor’ if he protested, or ‘apathetic’ if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.
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Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
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Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
