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Henrik Ibsen

Entertainment

Realism

"A Doll's House quotes analyzed; study guide with themes, character analyses, literary devices, teacher resources"

"There was a time I went through , I said, you know what, when I read it, I just thought 'Whoa', this is it. This is exactly it."

"Because it doesn't happen like this, where we're having an interview and it sort of turns into a conversation--and a quite gratifying one, because it's all about me."

"I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns."

"I despise those prick actors who say, "I was in character," and "I became the character," and all that stuff. It's hideous. It's just masturbation at the highest level."

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

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

"I’m much more emotional than Mr. Spock. Spock rarely betrays what he is thinking or feeling. He’s fun to portray. But I hope I won’t explode one of these days."

"I love champions. A champion has something special about him."

"Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily."

"Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, unrhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go."

"I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set."

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🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky

Religion

Surrealism

b. 1929

"That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it."

"It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere."

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

"I've always paid attention to religion … because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them — other than goat sacrificing."

"According to reports, Britney Spears has told family and close friends that she and her new husband Kevin Federline are expecting their first child. So far, no word on whether it will be a pimp or a ho."

"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

"Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?"

"Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it. And this is mainstream media. There should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies."

"You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured."

"A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it — that's possible."

"The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years."

"Peter Frankfurt , discussing a stuntman: "He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch."

"I fell in love with the right person, a person I know and who knows me."

"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."

"The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!"

"You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down."

"I have been discriminated against by white people for being black, by black people for being gay, by gay people for being too fem. Did I let them stop me from getting to this chair?"

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Hans Christian Andersen

Literature

Romanticism

1805–1875

"Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken."

"If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window."

"It is risky, in this cynical and mocking age, to make a determinedly traditional biopic … a film willing to focus on the good that men do."

"Bibliography of books and articles about Forman via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center"

"Foreign investors did not build South Korea - South Koreans developed their country; the Germans built their economy, an economy that was once in ruins. The Germans suffered a lot but now they are the best."

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"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."

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"If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer."

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"Rank.Certainly. However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible."

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"Back he'll come...With vine leaves in his hair. Flushed and confident."

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"The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions — to destroy."

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