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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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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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.
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Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!
