George S. Kaufman Quotes
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and your environment work together to produce the person you are.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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I've always considered myself something of a musical rebel.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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In the scale of American blunders - from the Dred Scott decision to the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s to the tragedy of Vietnam - is the Trump presidency really unique?
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.
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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
