August Strindberg Quotes
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's what I want to do. If it's a challenge and a massive risk and I'm going out on a limb ... those are the ones I want. And they are few and far between. I don't work very much because I'm very specific about what I want to do.
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Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
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When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
