Edward Albee Quotes
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.
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The biscuit tin shouldn't be handy - move it about a bit. Try to keep it out of the way.
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
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The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.
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If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
