Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
emotional levels directors
A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.
careers long wanted
What I wanted more than anything was a long career.
trying ease
Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.
stars fading kind
My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!
matter premieres
He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.
mean despair faces
To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.
death insults-you trying
I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.
powerful men firsts
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
may pages novelists
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
religious rights practice
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
dream cousin degrees
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
light able anticipation
You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
real mind psychedelic
Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind...
eyebrows space light
The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS....