Doug Stanhope Quotes
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
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The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
