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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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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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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The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'
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I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.
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The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory for the economy and things that were to happen. And that was so on the nose in the movie for me. I was like, 'That's obvious.' It's the other stuff about marriage and commitment and those other things that I spent the most time thinking about.
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When 'Entourage' came out, there wasn't Twitter or any of this access to celebrities. 'Entourage,' for me, let you inside of a world that nobody really knew about.
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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
