Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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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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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
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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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If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.
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I never discuss discussions.
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I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.
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So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
