M. H. Abrams Quotes
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
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For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
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I would love to have been a golfer or any individual sportsman.
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In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country
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It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
