Eugene Ionesco Quotes
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
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We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
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Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.
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We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.
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There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.
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A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
