Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Everything I do now is a first.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.
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It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.
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The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.
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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
