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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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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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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I like to fly under the radar.
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The economy is a collection of emotions.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.
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If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to.
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I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.
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To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.
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It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.
