Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody;… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and… — Patrick Wang Copy Share Image
["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people… — Thomas Howes Copy Share Image
I always have these little internal monologues. You'll get used to them. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Managing to overlook his lack of grooming and poor social skills, she was moved by the powerful monologues Day delivered on” — Wendy Moore Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each… — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
“Propaganda is where a demagogue plays pedagogue and starts a monologue to leave their audience agog.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues. — Chip Esten Copy Share Image
My monologues aren't always funny. They're generally thoughtful. Sometimes at different levels of aggravation. And sometimes no aggravation. But the pressure on… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do… — Randy Harrison Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still… — Julie Halston Copy Share Image
You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I like to think that I differ from other interviewers in the sense that I hide my agenda more successfully, and I'm… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
“Rubashov had always believed that he knew himself rather well. Being without moral prejudices, he had no illusions about the phenomenon called… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Oh, you’re going to die all right. All of you. And for what you’ve done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably!… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
![“["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the…” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/398/hunter-s-thompson-278_book_fear-loathing-in-las-vegas-is-a-very-har_780146.jpg)
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