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Lucy Larcom Quotes

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: March 5, 1824 - April 17, 1893

Topics

Character Money Curse Manhood

I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.

Change Good Attitude Character Think

If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.

Life People Pride Help You Want

Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.

Melissa McCarthy

Funny Think Silly Kind Shades Limit

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

Melissa Rosenberg

You Down Page Out Take Film

I booked 'Transformers' having no clue what I was doing. And then, all of a sudden, it was like: 'You've got to get your game together fast.' It sucks, but I'm trying.

Together Game Doing Trying You Fast

Richard Leacock and I ran into a guy who knew how to carve up a camera, and we had him carve one up for us. We had him chop it down and change the gears from metal to plastic, which would cut down on the sound it made when it was running.

Change Camera Down Sound Plastic Up

I'm going to fight until my body says otherwise.

Fight Body Going Until Says

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Change Women Daughter Men Moving

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

Today Culture Focus Quality Value

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

Family Me Energy Kid Little Skinny

I look for good scripts, not anything. It should inspire me, and the audience should like it.

Good Me Inspire Look Anything Like

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

Good Hate Past Think You Feeling

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