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🇦🇺William Shakespeare

Literature

English Renaissance

1948–2010

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."

"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire."

"Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public."

"... the genetic code is in fact literally identical in all animals, plants and bacteria ... All earthly living things are certainly descended from a single ancestor."

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🇺🇸Gore Vidal

Literature

postmodern literature

1925–2012

"People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified — which is sometimes useful."

"We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated."

"Born in Lust, Turn to Dust. Born in Sin, Come on In"

"Heterosexuality is far too interesting a phenomenon to be ignored."

"Which is the funniest language? It's French, isn't it?"

"I've always studied people and been fascinated by their reactions and feelings. And I think that's the best acting class you can take - watching real people, listening to them and studying them."

"I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimillionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am."

"All jokes about religion cause offence, so it's pointless apologising for them."

"A friend of mine suffered from COPD. That's why I wanted to let you know about Inogen, a new way to have oxygen anytime, anywhere. Look into the difference Inogen can make for you."

"Every shot was thrown with bad intentions." This has often also been quoted as, "Every punch was thrown with bad intentions."

"Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival."

"I became a vegetarian because I felt really bad for the animals and I love them a lot. Animals are very sweet, and I don't think that they deserve to be tortured."

"What a terrible tragedy. My heart goes out to Heath's family."

"Gay marriage... I'm a traditionalist. I'm older than most people in the audience. I kind of like tradition, and it's always been a man and a woman. I'm thinking, 'I don't quite get it'."

"Why work alone if you don’t have to? It’s all give and take. It’s all about listening to others and contributing. Even if you didn’t want to act, improv classes are great, because they teach you about conversation."

"I think that if you get too close to the character, if you do too much historical research, you may find yourself defending your view of a character against the author's view, and I think that's terribly dangerous."

"I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it."

"My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story."

"It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy'. To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love."

"Sex is about the connection. Great sex is a by-product, for me, of a great relationship, where you have communication and it's an extension of that. Where it's just free. And that's how it should be. It's spectacular."

"I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me."

"Despite the company outside, I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all. Thanks for coming to the show though."

"Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?"

"It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate... I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination."

"You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in."

"David Bowie portraits at the National Portrait Gallery London"

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🇦🇹Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politics

b. 1947

"I love him and Maria does too, and so thank you, Kurt."

"Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning."

"People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing."

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