Peter Abrahams Quotes

The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.

Peter Abrahams

Recitation: by Male by Female

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My first-ever job was when I was 14 or 15 in Washington, D.C., a job that I got through Marion Barry's summer-youth-employment program. It was working in the locker room of a public swimming pool, deep inside Anacostia in Southeast D.C., about five to 10 minutes from my house.

Jeffrey Wright

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When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.

Andrea Riseborough

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When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

John Madden

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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

John Major

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Once I got over my initial butterflies, being in the same room and doing a scene with Jimmy Caan was great. I never backed down for one second against him. I loved it. I love those moments. Working with people like that is the greatest joy you can get as an actor.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

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'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.

John Rhys-Davies

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Dee Dee got the name 'The Ramones' from Paul McCartney. McCartney would call himself Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels and didn't want to be noticed. I liked it because I thought it was ridiculous. The Ramones? That's absurd!

Tommy Ramone

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I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

Rita Moreno

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Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.

Romeo Miller

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Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.

Matisyahu

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I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.

Mary Crosby

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