E. V. Lucas Quotes
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Music is about the performance.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.
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Dreams can range from the meaningless to the prophetic.
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Cheating is very rarely about the actual act of being with another person.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
