Leslie Poles Hartley Quotes
I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
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I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
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Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
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I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.
