Eugene Ionesco
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NICHOLAS TRANDAHL JAMES WAN TERRY PRATCHETT JESSE EISENBERG NICHOLAS SPARKS DAVID BERGEN NICHOLAS SPARKS I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. ROY CROFT HASSAN NASRALLAH BENJAMIN DISRAELI LEILA SALES CRISS JAMI ALFONSO CUARON NICHOLAS SPARKS ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO 'Thunderbolts' I was mostly attracted to because I really wanted to write Punisher and Elekt... CHARLES SOULE ANDREW SOLOMON I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to ... RACHEL SKLAR DANIELLE STEEL WAYNE DYER EVE ENSLER DOROTHY ALLISON But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am. AMY HARMON The horror aspect, the scary parts, are easy for me. I mean, I can get into that pretty easy, becaus... TAISSA FARMIGA My characters are at their best, when I let them lead CATHERINE DORSETTE PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discur... JUAN GOYTISOLO I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of you... JOE CARNAHAN When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor or the reviewer or a... JUDY BLUME When a child comes to school and is irritable, not performing well or having a bad day, it is likely... JOE COOK ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES DEYTH BANGER You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec... JOAN OF ARC MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA JULIA GLASS I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ROY CROFT I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ROY CROFT I AM NOT A WRITER.T.N. SUAREZ AARON STANFORD JOAN D. VINGE I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest... ELIZABETH GEORGE STEPHEN FRY I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei... BARBARA KRUGER DEYTH BANGER KAREN JOY FOWLER To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in wor... GERHARD RICHTER Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, b... DAVID TANG HOWARD BARKER TALIB KWELI I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep. ASTRID 'ARTISTIKEM' CRUZ When you find yourself surrounded by sane people excited about your idea and lending support, you re... PARESH SHAH LUIGI PIRANDELLO ISRAELMORE AYIVOR While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have ha... ELIZABETH GEORGE MEGAN FOX DEBORAH TANNEN I love you not only because of who you are but because you are ANGELA PORISKY CHARBEL TADROS You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and... MARGO JEFFERSON ADAM DRIVER SYLVESTER STALLONE ROLAND BARTHES ANDRé GIDE XAVIER DOLAN Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjo... SACHA BARON COHEN B. B. KING DIANA GABALDON I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write dire... ADAM SCHLESINGER BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I w... BRYANT H. MCGILL I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to wr... RUTH OZEKI I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situa... ANUSHKA SHARMA SIDNEY SHELDON
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EUGENE O'NEILL It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of t... EUGENE JARECKI Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. EUGENE O'NEILL I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame;EUGENE O'NEILL If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as t... EUGENE O'NEILL The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bri... EUGENE CERNAN We are all dead men on leave. EUGENE LEVINE EUGENE FIELD His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party ... EUGENE JARECKI EUGENE SUE Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something ... EUGENE MIRMAN If you're at a party with more than five people named Chad, get the fuck out right away. EUGENE MIRMAN I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white i... EUGENE O'NEILL Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE FIELD We are the party of all labor. The whole earth shall be ours to share. And every race and craft our ... EUGENE POTTIER EUGENE DELACROIX One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE FIELD EUGENE DELACROIX When men make gods, there is no God! EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DELACROIX Happiness hates the timid! So does science! EUGENE O'NEILL For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or futur... EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE MCCARTHY EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DEBS EUGENE FIELD Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE DEBS EUGENE BENGE EUGENE MCCARTHY EUGENE DEBS EUGENE PETERSON EUGENE BENGE EUGENE FIELD Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. EUGENE O'NEILL If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true ... EUGENE EDWARDS EUGENE FIELD If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as... EUGENE O'NEILL EUGENE FIELD EUGENE FIELD EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE DELACROIX EUGENE MCCARTHY Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wa... EUGENE CERNAN Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he sa... EUGENE JARECKI Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who... EUGENE JARECKI Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have b... EUGENE KENNEDY Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has ... EUGENE KENNEDY The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with ... EUGENE KENNEDY Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it und... EUGENE KENNEDY The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the im... EUGENE KENNEDY We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, whi... EUGENE CERNAN This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the ... EUGENE LEVY EUGENE FIELD Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens... EUGENE MIRMAN EUGENE MCCARTHY People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. 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EUGENE CERNAN State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pen... EUGENE FAMA Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life... EUGENE KENNEDY There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from... EUGENE KENNEDY EUGENE DELACROIX The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are abl... EUGENE O'NEILL I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not... EUGENE LEVY Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not r... EUGENE KENNEDY The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring backgro... EUGENE CERNAN Mom was always doing something for somebody. She came from a Czech background, one that made her a d... EUGENE CERNAN Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at expl... EUGENE FAMA Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as ... EUGENE CERNAN We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we wen... EUGENE CERNAN Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch. EUGENE JARECKI I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill. EUGENE CERNAN I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I p... EUGENE CHADBOURNE Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, s... EUGENE CERNAN Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist... 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EUGENE LEVY Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough ... EUGENE LEVY The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public ... EUGENE JARECKI The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and u... EUGENE KENNEDY EUGENE DEBS EUGENE DEBS EUGENE DEBS EUGENE DEBS EUGENE DEBS EUGENE DEBS EUGENE DEBS Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room ... EUGENE CERNAN (Howard) had been throwing me curve balls because I hung with him earlier in the game. He had to com... EUGENE EVANS I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel... EUGENE JARVIS We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breath... EUGENE CERNAN How do you get there from here? They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a... EUGENE FIDELL There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. EUGENE CHADBOURNE It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too. EUGENE WIGNER It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical probl... EUGENE WIGNER The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences EUGENE WIGNER The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be... EUGENE KENNEDY Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me. EUGENE CERNAN EUGENE MCCARTHY Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos... EUGENE KENNEDY The rebound indicates the market is not overbought. But the basic market leadership is still in tact... EUGENE PERONI I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to. 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People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can ... 
Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Sa... 
I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of... 
When I am, you are not. 
To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theate... 
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist... 
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for ... 
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For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters.... 
There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of cou... 
Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness y... 
I like characters who are contradictory. 
I am certain that not only millions, but hundreds of millions, of Muslims are ready and willing to s... 
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. 
I didn’t know. I feel sometimes like…there are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? Y... 
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and... 
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environm... 
Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate. 
In the heat of an argument, my mother once told me, "Someday you can go to a therapist and tell him ... 
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the... 
As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only ex... 
I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legiti... 
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But t... 
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Dialogues must appear as natural as if coming from effortless writing. It must not sweat. Your belov... 
That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series. 
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There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writ... 
You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of mysel... 
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices... 
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does thing... 
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hea... 
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I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you ap... 
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in... 
And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will f... 
When good things come in, my agent calls or sends me the script. But I allow them to sort through th... 
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Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing ... 
I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of c... 
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else coul... 
I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actuall... 
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are... 
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ... 
When you are working in your office, I am not telling you to be a no-mind. When you are working in y... 
you are not in my debt. You can’t be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don’t want to d... 
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco. 
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying t... 
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixt... 
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t... 
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All human joys are swift of wing,
For heaven doth so allot it;
That when you get an easy thing... 
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. 
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Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to hav... 
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, t... 
Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning l... 
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the ai... 
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ... 
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While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while t... 
Getters don't get -- givers get. 
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. 
I often found myself prefering the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did ... 
Life without a friend is death without a witness. 
To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of othe... 