A. E. Housman Quotes
Far in a western brooklandThat bred me long agoThe poplars stand and trembleBy pools I used to know.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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We all have jobs in our lives that we must get done. We reach out and bring products into our lives to get these jobs done. Marketing is all about asking, 'What job is the customer trying to accomplish?'
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I look at my cell phone to see what time it is where I am, and then you behave accordingly. If people are eating, it must be time to eat.
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Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.
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A winner never whines.
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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Far in a western brooklandThat bred me long agoThe poplars stand and trembleBy pools I used to know.
