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.
Richard O'Brien
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Sai Baba
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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.
Barbara Bush
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
J. J. Abrams
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
Damon Lindelof
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
Barry Bostwick
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
Orhan Pamuk
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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.
Barry Diller
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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.
K. D. Lang
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
Samora Machel
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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.
Vern Buchanan
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.
Thomas Sowell
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
Malala Yousafzai
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
Baz Luhrmann
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Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
Beth Henley
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There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.
Raza Jaffrey
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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.
Richard O'Brien
