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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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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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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.
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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
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We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.
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So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
