Eugene O'Neill Quotes
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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Olympics is everyone's dream.
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If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
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What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one’s life.
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There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.
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When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
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I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.
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A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.
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Pain is love.
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DMK is the only political party that enjoys the confidence of the people.
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We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.
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Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.
