Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
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I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
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I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
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Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
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I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
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All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.
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If we did but know how we rush into one evil while seeking to avoid another, we should have no resolution to shun any thing.
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II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary.
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I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.
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I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.
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I'm here to work... not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.
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Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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Right is its own defense.
