Kenneth Tynan Quotes
If a play does anything either tragically or comically satirically or farcically - to explain to me why I am alive, it is a good play. If it seems unaware that such questions exist, I tend to suspect that it's a bad one.Kenneth Tynan
Quotes to Explore
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo -
This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
Vicki Lawrence -
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
Nate Parker -
There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
Wanda Jackson -
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
Ban Ki-moon -
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
Kaley Cuoco -
Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
Tavi Gevinson -
For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
Karan Johar
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
Ramon Rodriguez -
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
Octavia E. Butler -
The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
Wayne Rogers -
I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
Victoria Justice -
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
Eartha Kitt -
Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving the efficiency of capital markets. But as their role has grown, so have the risks they pose.
Jack Reed
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I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.
Miguel -
If you think of every single continent there is, on every continent, there is something, a natural resource that every continent has, or sources, that they can really survive with that, or they can trade with that. But a lot of the developed nations have taken those things from those places and have claimed it and, therefore, they're dependent on those other nations.
Stevie Wonder -
There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.
Faith Baldwin -
If a play does anything either tragically or comically satirically or farcically - to explain to me why I am alive, it is a good play. If it seems unaware that such questions exist, I tend to suspect that it's a bad one.
Kenneth Tynan