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Cosi Quotes Flashcards

1
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” I need the money, Lucy “

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Lewis

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2
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” why can’t I ever say no? Just leave. They’re mad. It’s madness “

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Lewis

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” do you think we should be doing something like this?… in these days, you know, the Vietnam war - “

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Lewis

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” love is not so important nowadays “

“ what planet are you from “

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Lewis to Roy

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5
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” free love is a hard concept to define “

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Lewis

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” she hates to talk about love. She thinks it’s icky. ‘ love is the last gasp of the bourgeois romanticism ‘ she says. She hates me doing an opera about love and fidelity while thousands of Vietnamese are being killed by American troops “

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Lewis ( about Lucy )

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” it’s about important things - like love and fidelity “

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Lewis

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” I don’t have a concept, I’m a director “

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Lewis

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” mad actors are bad enough, but madmen… “

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Nick

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” only mad people in this day and age would do a work about love and infidelity. They’re definitely mad “

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Nick

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” Christ, you’ll never be a director until you can convince the, that what you want to do is what they want to do “

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Nick

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12
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” bit shy the old Henry. Part of this project is to bring out people like Henry “

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Justin

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” they are normal people who have done extraordinary things, thought extraordinary thoughts “

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Justin

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” whenever this place gets too much for me, I always think of this definition - a madman is someone who arrives at a fancy dress part dressed in the emperors new clothes “

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Justin

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” straight out of university and… Well, this is probably the best education: doing theatre, working with such people! “

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Justin

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16
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” it’s all in my head. Without this, the world wouldn’t be the same “

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Roy

17
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” without this opera having been composed there would be a clanging, barging, a bedlam all around us “

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Roy

18
Q

” look on the bright side, Jerry. For killing an actor, he’d get life, for killing a director he get eternal gratitude “

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Roy

19
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” … Hate is a much more pure emotion. We choose our enemies with much greater care than our loves “

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Roy

20
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” … Democracy is foreign to theatre, Jerry. You and I know that, it’s just that you want to pander to the mob “

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Roy

21
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” I had a dream… There would be music… A world that was as far removed from this depressing asylum as possible. A world that was like my childhood.

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Roy

22
Q

” I’m not prying or anything, am I? It’s just that in here you miss out on a lot of changes in societies morals “

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Doug

23
Q

” in a way you’re sort of testing yourself by coming here? “

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Julie

24
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” I don’t like men’s double standards, I guess. Men want women to deceive them because it’ll prove their worst thoughts about women… “

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Julie

25
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” my parents had me committed. They think it’s sort of like a holiday “

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Julie

26
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” … It’s peculiar about drugs. Doug hates them because he likes to be naturally high all the time. Zac likes them because everything passes like he’s in a dream or limbo. I think I’m a naturally addictive personality “

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Julie

27
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” I’ve always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It’s about being on the edge and I like being on the edge “

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Julie

28
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” isn’t that the first day of the moratorium “

“ this comes first “

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Julie to Lewis

29
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” my fffffather fought in the war for you. For you and ffffor me. He was a ggggreat man. You are traitors “

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Henry

30
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” yes the more real it is, the more real it is “

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Ruth

31
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” comedy is better when it’s real “

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Ruth

32
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” I thought we would make it more real. The women aren’t twits, are they? “

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Cherry

33
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” I can’t stand real things. If I could put up with reality I wouldn’t be in here “

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Zac

34
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” working with these people has changed you. We used to talk about things. Important things. Now all you can talk about is reactionary drivel like Cosi Fan Tutte “

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Lucy

35
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” happy is the man who calmly takes life as he finds it and though the vicissitudes of life lets himself be ruled by reason… “

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All at the end of Cosi Fan Tutte

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