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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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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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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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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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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And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.
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You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.
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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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When people still talk about art that I made in the 60's- most of them never saw it, and they never lived through it, and they don't have a clue about it. The idea that they know what minimalism is is absurd. I don't know what minimalism is!
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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
