Jean Genet Quotes
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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The future is now.
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
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Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.
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I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better non-breaker than me, and that's Will Forte from 'SNL.' You can not make that guy break. I'll break eventually - Will Forte will never break.
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With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.
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When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.
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I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.
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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
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God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.
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Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.
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The Day the Palestinians become institutionalized, I will no longer be on their side.
