Athol Fugard Quotes
Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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If you can build a Facebook page and channel the audience to your website, you can generate revenue via PPC advertisement networks like Google Adwords, Taboola, Yahoo! Bing Network, AdRoll, 7Search, etc.
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At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
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With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.
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If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.
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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
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Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon
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Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
