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- Nov 07, 2020
Abandoned Quotes
On unfinished work and the choice to set it aside.
Not every abandoned project ends badly. A filmmaker unhappy with how a movie wrapped can still watch it find an audience, and a cluttered hard drive full of half-built ideas is a familiar feeling for anyone who creates. This page gathers quotes on that theme. Compare with Like quotes nearby.
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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few years ago when I visited a palliative care centre in Chennai for the first time, it completely moved me. It's an emotionally draining experience. I saw and met patients who were abandoned by their families, and there is complete sense of hopelessness. Ever since, I have been a supporter for the need for funding and awareness of palliative care.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where most politicians would have abandoned a supporter like Jeremiah Wright and the community he served, Obama, while strongly criticizing him, did not throw his friend overboard.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.
- Suffering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.
- Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020
With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life. While the British have abandoned this approach, we in India seem to be struggling with the old British system of education.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020