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" That said, Beckett did once concede, " It would be fatuous of me to pretend that I am not aware of the meanings attached to the word ' Godot ', and the opinion of many that it means ' God '.
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" When he explained to Beckett that he was playing Lucky as if he were suffering from Parkinson's, Beckett said, "' Yes, of course.
These were things Beckett said, psychological terms he used.
" Beckett said to Peter Woodthorpe that he regretted calling the absent character ' Godot ', because of all the theories involving God to which this had given rise.
" Waiting for Godot is clearly not about track cycling, but it is said that Beckett himself did wait for French cyclist Roger Godeau ( 1920 – 2000 ; a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961 ), outside the velodrome in Roubaix.
Of the two boys who work for Godot only one appears safe from beatings, " Beckett said, only half-jokingly, that one of Estragon's feet was saved ".
Beckett himself said the emphasis should be on the first syllable, and that the North American pronunciation is a mistake.
Steve Beckett, co-owner of Warp, has said that the electronic music the label was releasing at that point was targeting a post-club, home-listening audience.
In a 1966 interview, Claude Bonnefoy, comparing the Absurdists to Sartre and Camus, said to Ionesco, " It seems to me that Beckett, Adamov and yourself started out less from philosophical reflections or a return to classical sources, than from first-hand experience and a desire to find a new theatrical expression that would enable you to render this experience in all its acuteness and also its immediacy.
Beckett said, though he liked Nausea, he generally found the writing style of Sartre and Heidegger to be " too philosophical " and he considered himself " not a philosopher ".
It is said that he enjoyed many a happy restful holiday in the beautiful surroundings of Beckett, and that these pleasant memories influenced him in 1765 to give the name Becket to Township Number Four when he approved its incorporation.
Sister Wendy Beckett, in her book American Masterpieces, said about Martin: " Agnes Martin often speaks of joy ; she sees it as the desired condition of all life.
Hoon and Beckett were said to have a difficult ministerial relationship.
Mrs Beckett said: " I think at the moment we have got very considerable problems in Parliament.
“ Strangeness ,” Beckett informs us, “ was the necessary condition of the play of Winnie ’ s plight in the play .” During Berlin rehearsals he said, “ In this play you have the combination of the strange and the practical, the mysterious and the factual.
However, he and Miller gain an advantage when the partner who advised settling out of court confesses he long suspected Beckett had AIDS but never said anything, and how he regrets his inaction.
said, " Beckett creates an amazing blend of comedy, high wit and an almost unbearable poignancy in a funny yet heartbreaking image of man's fate.
Samuel Beckett would have said it's about two men waiting on the side of the road for someone to turn up.
Connor said the character needed a wilder, stranger last name, and offered " Godot " -- an allusion to Waiting for Godot, the famous existential play by Samuel Beckett.
Beckett is even said to have wanted Marlon Brando in one production ( with Buster Keaton as Vladimir ).
Although RPGamer's Michael " CactuarJoe " Beckett said that Vincent was one of the " less well-developed " characters from Final Fantasy VII, he found his development in Dirge of Cerberus to be satisfying.
When Beckett asks him how he knows Chinese, he responds " TV show I used to love ", referencing Firefly, other hints and allusions include him shooting a gun out of a thugs hand, upon being complimented for his marksmanship he comments " I was aiming for his head " mirroring a line Jayne Cobb had said in Firefly.
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`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.
Barton said harshly, `` Why did you do that ''??
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
Alexander the Great, who used runners as message carriers, did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at once.
He himself did not know, as he said in 1935.
Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.
He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.
While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.
The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.
`` Le petit dejeuner '', Harold said, in an accent that did credit to Miss Sloan, his high-school French teacher.
She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.
In reply to a question of whether they now tax boats, airplanes and other movable property excluding automobiles, nineteen said that they did and twenty that they did not.
`` Did you or did you not say what I said you said, because Jane said you never said what I said ''??
Another said that her arm did not go up at first `` because I wouldn't let it ; ;
Are we prepared to say that in that case nothing bad occurred in the sense in which we said it did??
Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.
And contrary to what has been said recently, we did not wait for `` outside pressures '' and `` world opinion '' to bring down that Communist government ; ;
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As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.
He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.
Blackman said that he wanted to apologize for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrible spectacle of himself, that he should have seized him by the neck at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom.
`` If once they become inattentive to the public affairs '', Jefferson said, `` you and I, and Congress and assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves ''.
I had once been a witness when Blanche had smiled and said with only minimum ruefulness, `` Oh, my souffle has collapsed ''.
`` The world that was once foot-loose and fancy-free '', he said, `` has now become screw-loose and frenzy-free.
`` I paint the nothing '', he said once to Franz Kline and myself, `` the nothing that is behind the something, the inexpressible, unpaintable ' tick ' in the unconscious, the ' spirit ' of the moment resting forever, suspended like a huge balloon, in non-time ''.
I realized, now, that she had been showing me, in what impressed me as being a very accurate way, something her mother had once said to her ; ;
Eric Hoffer, for example, once said that America was a paradise -- the only one in the history of the world -- for workingmen and small children.
Probably a lawyer once said it best for all time in the Supreme Court of the United States.
The attendant recognized me once more and said, `` What did you do about that office ''??
And Mr. Skyros didn't like Angie, but what with Prettyman and three of his boys inside, and not likely to come out -- And Angie such a valuable salesman, Prettyman said -- All the nuisance and danger of getting in touch with practically a whole new bunch of boys -- Why did everything have to happen at once??
Garth was prepared to be helpful in what he referred to with fastidious distaste as this unfortunate Johnston affair, which would not, he said more than once, have ever come about if Mrs. Meeker had only seen fit to consult Mr. Hohlbein or him about it.
When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.
Thompson himself said: `` I want to enjoy once more the pleasure of bare walls waiting for new pictures ''.
`` I did not perceive this essential distinction either, First-Born '', Hesperus said at once, `` I was only practicing a concept that Jack taught me, called a deal ''.
But once Milne had, in his own words, " said goodbye to all that in 70, 000 words " ( the approximate length of his four principal children's books ), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.
It has been said that twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.
Trevor said once that he was probably cast as Poirot simply because he could do a French accent.
Lynchehaun is said to have returned to Achill on two occasions, once in disguise as an American tourist, and eventually died in Girvan, Scotland, in 1937.
Asked once how far Sparta's boundaries stretched, he brandished his spear and said, " As far as this can reach.
Alan Ayckbourn said that his relationship with Christine became easy once they agreed their marriage was over.
Another passage from Proclus ' commentary on the Timaeus gives a description of the geography of Atlantis: That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea.
A friend of his once said that if Giacometti decided to sculpt you, " he would make your head look like the blade of a knife.
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