Laurence Housman Quotes
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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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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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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Tolling... has a place. We're not going to toll our way to prosperity as a country. It is a tool that can be used in some instances, for example, to add capacity and to pay for that capacity privately. But I don't think it is a complete solution to how we deal with our surface transportation issues.
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How can you stop writing?
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There isn't anything I don't eat, although I'm not too keen on creepy crawly things. Other than that, I'm quite adventurous. I like all types of red meat, and I'm not a fussy eater at all.
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'Wicked Nights' is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace - heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace - and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.
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Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
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Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
