Doug Stanhope Quotes
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.Doug Stanhope
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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.
Paddy Considine -
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
Dan O'Brien -
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen -
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.
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
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.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
Dan Rosensweig
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
Dag Hammarskjold -
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.
Harold Pinter -
The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
G. Edward Griffin -
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.
T. S. Eliot -
The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
Caitlin Moran -
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
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.
Laura Wade -
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Sam Abell -
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu -
The way to resumption is to resume.
Salmon Portland Chase -
Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
Laura Vandervoort
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I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.
Andrew Sean Greer -
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
Jean Chretien -
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden -
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
Bernard Beckett -
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
Doug Stanhope