Poul Anderson Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there's always new stories. … And as long as people want me to tell them, I'll be there doing them.
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I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
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It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.
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My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
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People usually take for granted that the way things are is the way things must be.
