R. M. Ballantyne Quotes
I am not prone to indulge in effeminate demonstration, but I am not ashamed to confess that when I gazed on the weather-beaten though ruddy countenance of my old companion, and observed the eager glance of his bright blue eyes, I was quite overcome, and rushed violently into his arms.
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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I see the work as a whole first. Then I compose the details. In working out, I always lose something. This cannot be avoided. There is always some loss when we materialize. But there is compensating gain in vitality.
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There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.
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What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.
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Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.
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I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
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And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.
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I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?
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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
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I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.
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Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.
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What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.
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I am not prone to indulge in effeminate demonstration, but I am not ashamed to confess that when I gazed on the weather-beaten though ruddy countenance of my old companion, and observed the eager glance of his bright blue eyes, I was quite overcome, and rushed violently into his arms.
