E. V. Lucas Quotes
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.
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The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
