Eugene Ionesco Quotes
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
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I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.
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When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.
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A great deal that had become frozen within me in Germany melted here in America and I rediscovered my old yearning for painting. I carefully and deliberately destroyed a part of my past.
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Traditional methods for falling asleep work. Non-taxing, repetitive mental tasks have a lulling effect, and I built those patterns into 'Sleep'.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
