Eleonora Duse Quotes

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Eleonora Duse

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• The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Remember
  • Artist
  • Young

• I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Physics

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

• It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Fun
  • Hanging
  • Bell

• Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Country
  • Rights

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Home
  • Enjoy

• Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • War
  • Popular
  • See

• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Yourself
  • Advocate

• We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Happy
  • Relationship
  • Day

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Know
  • Better
  • Right

• There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Great
  • Too Much
  • Then

• What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Know
  • Designer

• If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Responsibility
  • Too Much

• When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Good
  • Something

• Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

  

  Aaron Watson
  • Music
  • Want
  • Look Back

• Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.

  

  Naoki Higashida
  • People
  • Support
  • Facts

• This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

  

  John Bevere
  • Fall
  • Care
  • Hurt

• Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Today
  • Society
  • Single

• A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Plan
  • Employees
  • Edge

• Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

  

  Eleonora Duse
  • Care
  • Beauty
  • Acting