Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.
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As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
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Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.
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Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.
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Dominus virtutum Has gathered together those that were in slavery, And before I existed He had perceived me. May I be ardently devoted to God! And before I desire the end of existence, And before the broken foam shall come upon my lips, And before I become connected with wooden boards, May there be festivals to my soul!
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Never get high on your ownly supply.
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I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.
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You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.
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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Growing up shouldn't mean giving up.
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Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
