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• A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Intelligent, Men, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1988). “Manuscript Remains in Four Volumes: Berlin manuscripts (1818-1830)”, Berg Publishers

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• Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.

  David Wolpe

  Prayer, Self, People

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• Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.

  Steven Pinker

  Player, Genes, Interiors

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

  Spalding Gray

  Real, Order, Crafts

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• In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious.

  Anton Chekhov

  Exercise, Night, Order

  Anton Chekhov's letter to his brother N.P. Chekhov, March 1886.

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• I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.

  Clement Attlee

  Decision, Political, Gentleman

  Clement Richard Attlee, Francis Williams (1962). “Twilight of Empire: Memoirs of Prime Minister Clement Attlee”

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• I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Two, Theatre, Auditions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.

  Vance Palmer

  Optimistic, Voice, America

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• Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.

  Kali Hawk

  Hands, Laughing, Training

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• I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Important, Messages

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• A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!

  Julie Halston

  Office, Agents, Want

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.

  Zachary Quinto

  Nails, Usc, Foreheads

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.

  Norm MacDonald

  Wall, Night, Fire

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

  Norman Lear

  Writing, Los Angeles, Partners

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  School, Play, Acting

  "‘Jersey Shore’ Star Vinny Guadagnino’s Shakespearean Secret" by Jo Piazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• 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 way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Real, Drama, School

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• I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Thinking, Cities, Voice

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.

  Molly Shannon

  Drama, Comedy, Wanted

  Source: collider.com

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• I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.

  Norman Lock

  Ideas, Narrators, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Voice, Pages

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.107, Random House

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• While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.

  Victor Hugo

  Friday, Cake, Tuesday

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1116, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  People, Acting

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• What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.

  Eva Rubinstein

  Dream, Offering, Years

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• I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

  Garrison Keillor

  Friday, Morning, Writing

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• Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Book, Writing, Character

  "Maestro of Broadway". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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