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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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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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.
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I don't feel like I should pay somebody to do something that I can do.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In 'Robin Hood', you have more artistic license - it's all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.
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how anyone could remain an individual if he had to conform with senseless orders and old foolish things without being asked his opinion on them.
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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.
