Period Quotes
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Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.
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Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
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Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
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We definitely don't want to go through another Ice Age or another natural cycle of global warming. Both happen over a long period of time. It would be disastrous for our civilization, and not just for us but many other species.
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It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.
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I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.
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I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.
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When you have girlfriends, and you get into it, and you share your flaws, and you're like, 'Oh my God. I almost had my period all over that chair,' or whatever. That's how we connect, right?
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I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.
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Honestly, I've learned from results, period. Everything isn't a failure. Sometimes it just doesn't work. That's not a failure. Maybe it just means it wasn't its time.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.
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Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.
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I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.
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I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.
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I'd love to be in a period drama, though my dream role is to be in a film with Ray Winstone and Tom Hardy.
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Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
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So-called 'complex carbs' may actually represent a more significant threat to health than simple sugar in that they may not only raise blood sugar, but keep it elevated for a more prolonged period of time.
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It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
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I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.
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Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
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'Freedom dieters' often do well with programs that incorporate pretty basic rules, like intermittent fasting - simply don't eat for X period of time, then eat healthy foods. Very simple.
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It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.
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You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.
