M. H. Abrams Quotes
When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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There's no business like show business.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.
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I thank Burns & Wilcox for its support and look forward to representing the company's values and commitment to excellence on the links.
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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
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There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
