"I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past."

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Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

Gene Tierney

#Past Quotes #Able Quotes

“The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.”
“Switching off perfection switched on the human quality”
“Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.”
“I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.”
“Tohru: Shigure is always smiling. But, I wonder if I gave him some problems with my request. Yuki: The only ones who can truly understand what Shigure is thinking is Hatori and... a few other people. Someone has said this before. It is said that he is like a "tide..." A tide that carries you away when you get too close to it. The tide touches your feet... But when you reach down to touch it, it will have already departed. It is within your reach, yet you may never catch it...”
“The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men.”

Source : Charles Lyell, M. J. S. Rudwick (1990). “Principles of Geology”, p.163, University of Chicago Press
“Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.”

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