Addison Mizner Quotes
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.
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I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
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I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.
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To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be 'American' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
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My greetings to you, my Germany.
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I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
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When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?
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It's all about trying to find those projects where you get to enjoy yourself, because I think that's when you create as well: when you're genuinely excited about something. Then you're not just doing it because it's your job.
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Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.
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You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.
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In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.
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With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
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As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital.
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The wages of gin is breath.
