David Rabe Quotes
Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives.
David Rabe
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There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
Samuel Barber
I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
Dan Hill
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde
Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.
E. W. Howe
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
H. L. Mencken
He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.
Avril Lavigne
My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
Gary Sinise
I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.
Leroy Chiao
British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.
William Randolph Hearst
Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious.
Martin Luther
Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives.
David Rabe