Period Quotes
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People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.
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I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.
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Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
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It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife.
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The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.
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You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.
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We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.
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If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.
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I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.
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If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
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I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
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'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
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The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.
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I love doing period work, like all the trappings and the wigs and everything. It really helps when it's such a different world that you're immersing yourself in; it helps to get into the story, I think, and step into that different place.
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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
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It fell to my lot to orient our foreign policy during the period of bewilderingly rapid changes wherein one kind of world was ushered out and another kind was ushered in.
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All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?
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'Braveheart' is one of my favorite movies, and to be part of an epic sprawling period film is on my bucket list: something with some grandeur to it, a really awesome score, something that's just kind of moving, you know.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
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I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.
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You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
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Over the longer period of time it would move in exactly the wrong direction because it would encourage us to use more oil, not less.
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
