Louis Nizer Quotes
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.
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English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
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Don't waste your crazy!
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I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.
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Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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'Pilar - remember - nothing is so boring as devotion.'
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I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.
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Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.
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'I've seen visual editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing.'
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!
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I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.
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A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
