M. H. Abrams Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
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I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
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Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.
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What the eyes see, the heart must believe.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
