"Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind."

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Andrew Tudor

#Distance Quotes #Mind Quotes #Typical Quotes

“I have a lot of female fans.”
“You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.”
“Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.”
“Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.”
“I am very much against weapons in space.”
“I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”

Source : "Mourdock dismisses Lugar attack". Interview, www.politico.com. May 9, 2012.
“It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.”
“From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.”

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