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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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.
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Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
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I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera 'Larklight.'
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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.
