Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
Quotes to Explore
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
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Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
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I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
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I want to live fast and die young.
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Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.
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I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
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My natural hair is who I am. I have lots of braids, and I have lots of twists, but it's all very low maintenance. I feel like I can get up and go and get out of the house. I just don't have it in me to get my hair done all the time.
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I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
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The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
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So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
