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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The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
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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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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
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A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
