Laurence Housman Quotes
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I am really addicted to music.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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That's obviously not easy. I don't want to leave the Mets; I don't want to not play in New York. It's not at all that I want to leave, but that's the business.
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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
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I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.
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I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'
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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
