Richard O'Brien Quotes
I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.
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I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.
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I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.
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Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.
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During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.
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I don't want players who don't want to stay.
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My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.
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Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.
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I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and seen a lot of audience members from different ethnic persuasions.
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I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.
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I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.
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I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
