Lawrence Durrell Quotes
the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
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Golf is played with the arms.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
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I like to be who I am.
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Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
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We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
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Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
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You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.
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I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.
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Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
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Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.
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We're at a real time of transition here in terms of future aviation. What's going to be manned? What's going to be unmanned? There are those who see [the JSF] as the last manned fighter/bomber. And I'm one that's inclined to believe it-whether it's right or not.
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Composers are always going back to the past.
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I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.
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the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
