James Longstreet Quotes
In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.
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I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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Running a business anywhere isn't easy.
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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
