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Ismail Kadare Quotes

We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.

Ismail Kadare

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: albanian
Birth: January 28, 1936

Topics

Past Spiritual Theatre World Europe

I thought, 'Oh, acting is going to be great - I get to play different parts.' And then these auditions started coming up for terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, and I'm going, 'Whoa, what's this about?'

Maz Jobrani

Great Thought Acting Play Coming Up

I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.

Maxine Peake

School Drama Go London Years Left

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

John Irving

Know Damn Him Background Just He

I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along.

John Ridley

People Cool Roots Growing Up Reading

That's the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete.

Trae Young

Nature Basketball You Go Out Gotta

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

Joyce Brothers

Relationship Doing Feeling Possible

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

Javier Bardem

Job You Personal Will Never Working

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

Dick Cavett

Youth Think Someone Remember Young

I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.

Drea De Matteo

Best Child Giving Giving Up Up His

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

Conor McGregor

Doubt Place Go Way Odds Kid

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

Corey Taylor

People Know Fans Metal Smartest

Matt Ryan does a great job of throwing the ball. No quarterback within the 20 to 25 yard range is throwing the ball any better than Matt Ryan.

Antonio Brown

Great Job Better Ball Within Range