M. H. Abrams Quotes
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
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History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
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There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.
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There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.
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I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
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BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
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We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.
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An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
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Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.
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The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.
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One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.
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Security has no place in the life of an actress.
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If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?
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I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.
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I don't know how to thank everyone for all their help.
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It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it.
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It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.
