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Jean Anouilh Quotes

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: french
Birth: June 23, 1910 - October 3, 1987

Topics

Genius Without Obvious Understood

I've been in the shadows my whole career.

Career Shadows Whole Been

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

Good Think Try Listen Band Same

When the period arrives - come when it may - that this government will be compelled to resort to internal taxes for its support in time of peace, it will mark one of the most difficult and dangerous stages through which it is destined to pass.

John C. Calhoun

Time Peace Government Support Will

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.

Art School Writing Theatre Newspaper

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

Home Feel You Wrong Right Something

No one wants to tell you their secrets, because you never know when you might get a heat with them.

John John Florence

You Secrets Know Never Heat Tell

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

Path Obstacles You Overcome Being

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.

Mercy Otis Warren

Compassion Fall Guilty Hand May Who

I went to a hypnotist to learn how not to use drinking a pint before you go on as a way of giving you the confidence to just fly at it, irrespective of the fear. That's not a long-term strategy, when you do as many gigs as I do.

Fear Confidence Fly Learn Strategy

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

Painting Writing Loved Career Way

Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.

Mind America Risk Always Champagne

My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Mom Moving Think Thought House Know

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