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.M. H. Abrams
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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.
Warren Kole -
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.
Mandy Moore -
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!'
Jacki Weaver -
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal -
Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
Rachael Harris -
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder
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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.
Adam Kinzinger -
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
J. A. Konrath -
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.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Salman Rushdie
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
V. S. Naipaul -
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Dakota Johnson -
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken -
What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
Gary Lineker -
A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
Iggy Azalea
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
Val Kilmer -
Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn't stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.
Donna Brazile -
You think when you start getting jobs that it'll get easier, but that's the biggest lie ever. It gets harder. You have to put in more work. I wish it were the casting couch days because it'd be a lot easier!
Kerry Condon -
It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
John Gunther -
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
Billy Crystal -
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.
M. H. Abrams