Ninon de L'Enclos Quotes

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Ninon de L'Enclos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: 1620 - October 17, 1705

Topics

LifeDailyDaily LifePeopleEnough

I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.

Jidenna

WorkNigeriaGhana

Everybody is supposed to be a part of their own community.

Jill Scott

CommunityOwnEverybodyPart

Asia has a great future; we here in the Philippines will benefit from this Asian prosperity.

Andrew Tan

FutureGreatProsperityWillAsian

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

Maurice Strong

MattersUpIndividualsAdds

Even the best documentary has somebody's bias.

Stephen McFeely

BestBiasDocumentarySomebodyEven

As a kid, I grew up on a farm in Florida, and I did what most little kids do. I played a little baseball, did a few other things like that, but I always had the sense of being an outsider, and it wasn't until I saw pictures in the magazines that a couple other guys skate, I thought, 'Wow, that's for me,' you know?

Rodney Mullen

BaseballMeThoughtFarmYouKnow

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

Debra Messing

FamilyLoveHomeHometownYouMean

Anybody who's done standup will tell you that there's nothing like it. The show starts at 8:00, the curtain goes up and there's nobody else except you and the audience, and you just perform for them for two hours. Nobody yells, 'Cut!' There are no retakes. That is still the most exciting medium for me, and I love it.

Denis Leary

LoveMeYouNobodyDoneNothing

I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

LifeLoveCommunityEndDifferences

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.

Pierce Brosnan

FoodLossSurvivalFindDeafDepend

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

Sharon Olds

DepressionDayReadingEvery DayGet

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

Rick Reilly

StoryNobodyWriteSeeGoingAnyone

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