Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Quentin Crisp The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Pearl S. Buck The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • George Santayana The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • James Baldwin The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Samuel Butler The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ben Brantley Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Agnes De Mille Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
    Agnes De Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
    Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Arsene Wenger Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Adrian Lyne Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Their peace and their war
    Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Their road will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces, success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    Source: God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • André Malraux Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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