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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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
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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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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.
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One of women's greatest values is compassion.
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I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.
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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.
