M. H. Abrams Quotes
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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I don't know what love means.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
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When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
