Eugene O'Neill Quotes
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
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The more defensive a society, the more conformist.
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On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.
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A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.
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I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'
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I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.
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If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.
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My brother and my dad always used to shave their hair, and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I do the same?'
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It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
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You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.
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I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.
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The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!
