"The past has to inform the present."

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"One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it."

John Oldham, American Celebrity

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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role."

Dennis Ritchie, American Scientist

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"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades."

Ron Lewis, American Politician

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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

Elvis Costello, British Musician

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"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."

Terri Windling, American Artist

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"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."

Kenneth Tynan, English Critic

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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."

Charles R. Swindoll, American Clergyman

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"The past has to inform the present."

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"A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show."

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"Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone."

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"When the day's work is over, it's over."

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"I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors."

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"Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him."

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"The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward."

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"I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter."

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"In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors."

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