Elizabeth Samet Quotes

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

Elizabeth Samet

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• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

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• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  

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• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

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• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

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• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

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• I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.

  

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• We all have to make choices in life.

  

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• Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

  

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• I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

  

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• Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

  

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• I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.

  

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• Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

  

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• Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

  

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• The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

  

  Elizabeth Samet
  • War
  • Promise
  • Romance