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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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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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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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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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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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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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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For 'Hercules,' I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you're playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot.
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The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
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When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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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.
