Eric Bogosian Quotes

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

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• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Thing

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Loved
  • Afraid

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Thought

• Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • High
  • Perfect
  • Never

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • High
  • Think

• I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • School
  • Think

• Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • School
  • Law
  • College

• I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • School
  • Teaching
  • Arts

• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Alone

• A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Good
  • School
  • Resilience

• Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Best

• I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Up
  • Me
  • College

• I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Why
  • High
  • Kind

• Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.

  

  Kate Williams
  • High
  • Empire
  • 19th-Century

• I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • School
  • Drama
  • TV Shows

• Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Research
  • Medical

• Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Life
  • High
  • Death

• When I talk to young people who want to go to Broadway or whatever, I say, 'The highs are very high and the lows are very low and then there is a lot in between.'

  

  Liz Callaway
  • People
  • High

• Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

  

  Eric Bogosian
  • Real
  • Pretty

• The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

  

  Matthew Bourne

• I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

  

  Eric Bogosian
  • Writing
  • School
  • High