Thomas Pablo Croquet (Thomas Mars) Quotes
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
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Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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Life is short and progress is slow.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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My favorite albums are really short.
