Past Quotes
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Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
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In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
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What is overlooked is the astonishing amount of history Hollywood has got right... For better or worse, nothing has been more influential in shaping our visions of the past than the commercial cinema.
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Keep out of the past. It is haunted.
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Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine about them.
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The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.
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The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.
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I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.
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I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.
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I've dominated past competitions, but I've sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I'm fully focused on doing my best.
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The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
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Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
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To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
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My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.
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Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
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Things won't get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.
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In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
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'Jubal,' the face said, 'I am thy loved Past, The soul that makes thee one from first to last. I am the angel of thy life and death, Thy outbreathed being drawing its last breath. Am I not thine alone, a dear dead bride Who blest thy lot above all men's beside?
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
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When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.
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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.
