Eugene O'Neill Quotes
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf, By some not unfrequented Garden-side.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
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I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.
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He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
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Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
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Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
