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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.
Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.
I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.
I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write into a play.
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.