Lajos Egri Quotes

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

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• The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Compliment

• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• 'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Show
  • Very
  • Grey

• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Something

• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Choices
  • Healthy

• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Person
  • Stillness

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Think
  • Hurt
  • Successful

• I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Long
  • Live
  • Funny

• In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Character
  • Down

• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • High
  • Hair

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Her

• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Future
  • Past
  • Change

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Unknown
  • Refreshed

• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Writing
  • Rock
  • Script

• In my lifeWhy do I smileAt people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People

• A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Baby
  • Flight
  • Southwest Airlines

• Love is blind, friends close their eyes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friends
  • Love Is
  • Blind

• No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

  

  Lajos Egri
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