Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes
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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
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When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.
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During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it.
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Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.
