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“On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

tags: acting, loneliness, revolution, sad, stage, theater

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“people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

tags: academy-award, academy-awards, film, movies, theater, theatre

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“I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

tags: acting, actor, actress, alone, always, audience, control, demand, demanding, drama, dramatic, emotion, emotional, emotionless, exact, exacting, fake, feel, feelings, feelless, forbid, forbidden, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, hide, hiding, lonely, mask, masks, play, postmodern, postmodernism, pretend, pretending, romance, romantic, self-image, stern, strength, strong, suspense, theater, theatre, weak, weakness, young-adult, young-adult-gothic-romance

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“That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.”
― Eugène Ionesco, Man With Bags

tags: dystopia, nihilism, theater

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“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

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