- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look Quotes
On perspective, hindsight and how we choose to see things.
The quotes here range from looking back on a career with no regrets to noticing how children in very different places can end up facing strikingly similar struggles. For more on outlook, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
- Exceeded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't done much rereading or rewatching stuff I've written over the years, but I did look at 'Misery' before I started the play. I liked it. Not much I would change.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never a 'bad' kid, but I did get into minor juvenile trouble. Look, I grew up in Brooklyn. This was the '60s, and the neighborhood was rapidly changing and not without its problems. All the kids of the neighborhood 'did their thing,' breaking windows and the like. I was no different.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision of the Founders. It has brought to our Republic a dynamism and effectiveness that other democracies have lacked.
- Shoes
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- Nov 07, 2020