Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.
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No one is going to tell me I'm too small to do whatever, to do anything. That's not up to them, and I'll never give anyone that power to say that.
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We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.
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The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
