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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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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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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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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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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'Haven't you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?'
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George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author is a perfect union.
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Because you can’t kiss your way out of prison and I knew that for sure. For dead sure.
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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
