Top 41 Eric Bogosian Quotes
#1. Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
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#2. Formal declaration of jihad in Constantinople, followed by well-organized demonstrations on the streets.32 Proclamations and pamphlets were distributed.
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#3. I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
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#5. For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
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#6. Impact of this makeover has been to significantly impede historical research, and it is one of Ataturk's most devastating accomplishments.
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#7. I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
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#9. Denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people.
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#10. At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I have nothing original to say about it.
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#11. He who kills even one unbeliever of those who rule over us, whether he does it secretly or openly, shall be rewarded by God.
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#12. It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
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#13. The struggle within Turkey that continues to this day is the legacy of Kemal Ataturk's radical reformation,
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#14. I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.
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#16. Many devout Muslims, particularly in the east, understood that attacking helpless people, nonbelievers or not, was contrary to the tenets of Islam. Still, a vast number of Muslims saw the pronouncement of jihad as an endorsement for killing and looting.
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#17. We all know, either implicitly or explicitly, that all we really have is our place in the memories of others. We exist to the degree that we know and remember one another. Even the most isolated among us. We share a collective understanding that we are all part of a greater whole. Perhaps
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#18. I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.
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#19. And if nobody ever hears from me again,
It would be okay,
And if nobody ever knows where I am,
I won't mind,
Because I would know where I am,
And than is the most important thing.
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#20. I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
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#21. I love playing other people's work. I love acting.
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#22. Vision, of the Ittihadists and, by extension, Kemal Ataturk, did not include the non-Muslim population of what was once the Ottoman Empire.
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#24. I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.
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#25. Turkish." Vocabulary was deleted, new words added. Place-names all over the country were Turkified (for example, "Smyrna" became "Izmir"), which only added confusion and another obfuscating layer to the buildup of historical sediment.
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#26. I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
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#27. The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.
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#28. There is nothing more boring than people who love you.
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#30. I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.
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#31. If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.
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#32. As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
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#33. From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.
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#34. I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
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#35. Kemal's former opponents in the CUP, all dead by 1930, were resuscitated as heroes in the Turkish national consciousness.
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#36. I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.
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#37. If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.
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#38. It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
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#39. If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.
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#40. I'm a first class passenger on the Spaceship Earth, and I got one ticket. And I gotta make the ride count, you know? And, as far as I figure, you can either take the service road or the scenic route. And, man, if I only have one ride, I want it to be beautiful.
84. Highway.
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