Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.
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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!
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I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.
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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.
Biz Stone -
You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
