H. L. Mencken Quotes
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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My college degree is from a great university in 1944. I got my master's at Harvard graduate school, completely co-ed, in 1945. My mother got her college degree in 1920. What's the problem? Those opportunities were always there for women.
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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
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By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.
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My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.
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The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
