Past Quotes
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I do miss England. Well, I miss the idea of England, I think. But I haven't been back for years. I probably just miss the past.
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about the past, and Mary Ann, before Harry went to do his two years in the army Maybe she sensed something about him. A loser. Though at eighteen he looked like a winner.
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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
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We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
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I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.
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To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
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The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
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When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now.
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Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
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I'm inspired by antiques. I look at things that have a wink to the past but are also reinterpreted in some way and made to feel modern... and maybe that's what I am.
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Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.
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When I re-read my past work I can see a development to such an effect, indeed, that some of them no longer seem to be any part of me.
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Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
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With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
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I can't stay stuck in the past.
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.
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Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.
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Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.
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It was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway.
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Many of our leaders have gone past the old-fashioned politics of the democratic era and entered into the politics of fear. People running for national office no longer emphasize their views about the economy or social change. The leading political question of our time has become: who can ease our nightmares?
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Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.
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The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.
