M. H. Abrams Quotes
I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
M. H. Abrams
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
Taylor Lautner
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
Patricia Polacco
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
Gary Johnson
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I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
Ian Watson
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A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
Olivia Munn
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
Val Kilmer
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'Gutur Gu' is a silent comedy, which I had never done. I wanted to do something out of the box. It's exciting, tough, and fun. Dialogues are very important for actors, and to emote without them took some getting used to. It's giving me scope to learn a lot.
Anita Hassanandani Reddy
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Everyone knows George W. Bush has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate.
Molly Ivins
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Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.
Charles S. Dutton
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
M. H. Abrams