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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Old age: the crown of life our play's last act.
  • 2. One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
  • 3. I appreciate and enjoy my age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When you think of what Americans accomplished building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America not just from abroad but internally.
  • 2. My dad was working abroad in Iraq and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him in Baghdad off and on. For the first ten years of my life we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.
  • 3. I think that we're in a really amazing time where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

3 Anger

  • 1. Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
  • 2. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
  • 3. I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
  • 2. Architecture is politics.
  • 3. The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
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