"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously."

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"If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously."

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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

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"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."

Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist

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"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."

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"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies."

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"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."

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"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

Iris Murdoch, Irish Author

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"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish Actress

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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

Salvador Dali, Spanish Artist

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"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."

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"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."

"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."

"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies."

"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."

"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."

"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."

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"They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original."

"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."

"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."

"Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting."