Yasmina Reza famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.
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Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
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If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you're who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If, on the other hand, I'm who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I'm not who I am and you're not who you are.
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What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
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After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
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Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.
-- Yasmina Reza
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It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.
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But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?
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Don't waste your one beautiful life.
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Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time
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To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.
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I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
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There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
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No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
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Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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