Walter de La Mare Quotes
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.
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I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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You don't talk to terror organizations!
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I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
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And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!
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The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.
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Crackling Rosie make me smile. God, if it lasts for an hour that's alright, to set the world right. Find us a dream that don't ask no questions.
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In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed
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It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.
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When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
