Emil Cioran Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
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All actors should experience public failure.
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I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
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I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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When I moved to New York in '93, we'd go dancing a lot. That's what kept us in shape, I think.
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If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.
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Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.
