Yasmina Reza Quotes
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
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The countryside, particularly, is very good for my head.
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As much as I want to help people, I had to accept the fact long ago that being stupid with money isn't illegal.
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My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
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Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
