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Bertolt Brecht Quotes

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: german
Birth: February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956

Topics

Live Finesse Processes Means Which

I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

Joe R. Lansdale

Home Son Fire Wife Writing Early

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

Truth Better You Admit More Tell

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

Actor Playground Recess Being Going

Johnny Knoxville has such an incredible humanity to him when you meet him. He's so warm and so funny, and he can sort of get into trouble and you sort of forgive him immediately.

Funny Warm Humanity You Meet Him

With a fantasy world, it's like, this is my world. I literally made it. So if I tell you something, you do have to sit back and observe more. You need to sit back and listen more to understand what is going on or what's happening in the world. And I think there's a lot of power in that.

Power World Think You Back Need

I think irony precludes really feeling deeply about anything. I just didn't want to be that kind of writer who found nothing that wasn't worth indictment. I admire Willa Cather so much because she was unafraid to have big feelings and put them on the page. I just want to be able to believe in things.

Believe Think Worth Feeling Feelings

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Robert Budi Hartono

Always Assign Strictly Supervise

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

Ethics Laugh You Nothing Human Like

Ireland is a great place to be odd.

Great Place Odd Ireland Great Place

When I say something's going to happen, it's going to happen.

Say Happen Something Going

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

William Shakespeare

Fault Make Worse Excuse Doth

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Phyllis McGinley

Success Yesterday Nothing Defeated

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