"If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights."

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Source : "Laurence Olivier". Book by Foster Hirsch, 1979.

Laurence Olivier

#Thinking Quotes #Mad Quotes #Gone Quotes

“History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.”
“I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.”
“Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.321, New Directions Publishing
“Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.”

Source : "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.”
“The man who is successful is the man who is useful.”
“Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to wake me up. Something to help me sleep. Something to calm my nerves. There was a time when I was able to wake up, go to sleep, and have fun without a pill or a line to help me function. These days it felt like I might have a nervous breakdown if I didn't have them.”
“I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.”

Source : Song: Kiss Me, Album: Plus, 2011

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