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Lawrence Durrell Quotes

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Lawrence Durrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990

Topics

Children Thought Behavior Landscape

I'm not really trying to be too much of an actor or anything.

Trying Too Much Actor Anything Much

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

John Cameron Mitchell

Cool Say Same See Happen Like

I very seldom read back into what I've written.

Back Read Seldom Very Written

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

Father Mother Time Food Restaurant

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

Society Religious Distribution Tastes

I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.

Life Health I Am Survive Believe

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Focus Moving On Moving Forward Moving

The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration - that is, the mind.

Food Day Mind End Of The Day End

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

Women Great Men War People World

Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.

Change Past Me Person Deaf Up

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

Respect Career No Respect Absolutely

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

I Am Happen Tie Suit How Olympics

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