Allan Massie Quotes
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Quotes to Explore
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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Da requiem: requietus ager bene credita reddit
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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I AM EVERYWHERE
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It's amazing to completely focus on something for four, five or six months, have it completely consume your life and be constantly thinking about somebody else's set of circumstances and how they would react to something. I find it fascinating. It's rewarding and on a professional and personal level.
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[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
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Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
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So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.
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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
