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I Loathed Every Day And Regret Every Day I Spent In School. I Like To Be Taught To Read And Write And Add And Then Be Left Alone.
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I Loathed Every Day

Woody Allen
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I Loathed Every Day And Regret Every Day I Spent In School. I Like To Be Taught To Read And Write And Add And Then Be Left Alone.

Understanding the Quote: "i loathed every day and regret every day i spent in school...."

This quote by Woody Allen reflects deeply on the theme of regret. It connects to the universal human journey of purpose, motivation, and reflection. Often categorized under Regret, Writing, School, the quote offers insight, emotional clarity, and intellectual inspiration to readers worldwide.

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Anxiety
Bluebird
When I Was Young, I Wanted To Be A Dramatic Writer, A Writer Of Tragedy. Nothing Would've Pleased Me More Than If I Could Have Written Like Eugene O'neil Or Tennessee Williams.
Tragedy
Tennessee
Dramatic
Jazz Is A Big Thing With Me. It's A Very Big Passion Of Mine, To Play It. I'm An Amateur Musician And I Love Everything About It. I Was Obsessed With Jazz When I Was 15 Years Old And I Know A Lot About It Because I've Loved It So Much.
Passion
Years
Play
I Keep Getting More And More Ambitious. Over The Years, To Some Degree, In Some Areas, I Feel I've Grown. In Some Areas, I Made A Fool Of Myself. In Some Areas, I Think I Can Still Do Some Funny Things.
Thinking
Years
Funny Things
This Is My Perspective And Has Always Been My Perspective On Life: I Have A Very Grim, Pessimistic View Of It. I Always Have, Since I Was A Little Boy. It Hasn't Gotten Worse With Age Or Anything. I Do Feel That It's A Grim, Painful, Nightmarish, Meaningless Experience, And That The Only Way That You Can Be Happy Is If You Tell Yourself Some Lies And Deceive Yourself.
Lying
Boys
Views
When A Film Is Reviled, You Open A Film And People Say "oh, It's The Stupidest Thing, It's The Worst Movie." You Think: Oh, Nobody's Going To Ever Speak To You Again. But, It Doesn't Happen. Nobody Cares. You Know, They Read It And They Say "oh, They Hated Your Film." You Care, At The Time. But They Don't. Nobody Else Cares.
Thinking
People
Care
My Lord, My Lord! What Hath Thou Done Lately?
God
Done
Lord
When I Naturally Write A Story And I Feel That The Guy Is Sitting Across The Table From The Girl And Flirting With Her... I Think, 'god, That Can't Be Me' Because I'm Just Too Old For That Part. You Need A 30-year-old Or A 35-year-old For That Part. And So I've Given Myself Less And Less Roles.
Girl
Writing
Thinking
My One Regret In Life Is That I Am Not Someone Else.
Funny
Life
Witty
I'm Sure There Are People In Hollywood, Whose Main Drive In Film Is To Make Money, Who Will Feel That Any Use Of The Word Hijacking Or Any Reference To Anything Violent Or Remotely Associated With The Terrible Tragedy That Occurred Will Lose Customers For Them. And That Will Be The Only Criterion That Will Matter And So They'll Force The Minions That Work For Them To Remove These Things From Their Movies, Or Not Make Movies About That Subject.
People
Tragedy
Hollywood
I'm So Excited-i Think Today I'm Going To Brush All My Teeth.
Thinking
Teeth
Today
To You I'm An Atheist; To God, I'm The Loyal Opposition.
Loyalty
Atheist
Religion
Existence For Eternity Could Get A Little Boring... Especially Towards The End.
Boredom
Directors
Littles
I Once Stole A Pornographic Book That Was Printed In Braille. I Used To Rub The Dirty Parts.
Funny
Dirty
Book
A "bay Area Bisexual" Told Me I Didn't Quite Coincide With Either Of Her Desires.
Inspirational
Sex
Desire
When You Make The Film, There's A Big Difference Between When You're In Your Own Home At The Typewriter, And When You're Standing On A Mountain, Or On A Street Corner, And Buses Are Coming By-it's A Different Reality. You Make A Million Changes That Were Never In The Script, But That Reality Dictates.
Home
Reality
Differences
I Was Nauseous And Tingly All Over. I Was Either In Love Or I Had Smallpox.
Love
Heartbreak
Kissing
If You're Not Failing, You're Not Trying Anything.
Failure
Trying
Learning From Mistakes
I Hope You're Getting This Down.
Happy Love
Love And Death
Hilarious Love
If You're Born With A Gift, To Behave Like It's An Achievement Is Not Right.
Achievement
Born
Behave
Life Is For The Living.
Life Is
When You Work From City To City Or Country To Country, You Work The Same Way; The Working Method Is The Same.
Country
Cities
Way
My Ex-wife Was A Philosophy Major At Nyu. Yeah, She And I Used To Have Deep Philosophical Discussions Where She Would Prove That I Didn't Exist.
Philosophy
Philosophical
Nyu
When I First Started, There Were Writers That I Looked Up To That I Felt Very Influenced By And Very Respectful Toward Their Work And Their Opinion Of My Work.
Firsts
Opinion
Respectful
I've Had A Very Productive Life. I've Worked Very Hard, I've Never Fallen Prey To Depression. I'm Not Sure I Could Have Done All Of That Without Being In Psychoanalysis.
Productive Life
Done
Prey
They Were Doing The Dying Swan At The Ballet. And There Was A Rumor That Some Bookmarkers Had Drifted Into Town From Upstate New York And That They Had Fixed The Bullet. There Was A Lot Of Money Bet On The Swan To Live.
New York
Swans
Ballet
I Am Not Afraid Of Death. I Just Don't Want To Be There When It Happens.
Inspirational
Funny
Life
I Feel That Life Is Divided Into The Horrible And The Miserable. That's The Two Categories. The Horrible Are Like, I Don't Know, Terminal Cases, You Know, And Blind People, Crippled. I Don't Know How They Get Through Life. It's Amazing To Me. And The Miserable Is Everyone Else. So You Should Be Thankful That You're Miserable, Because That's Very Lucky, To Be Miserable.
Witty
Life And Love
Humorous
The Whole Thrust Of Science And The Medical Profession Is To Try And Prevent It From Happening, To Try To Prolong Life, To Keep You From Dying, To Keep You From Getting Older, To Rejuvenate You. I Mean, That's Everybody's Wish. The Fountain Of Youth Is Everybody's Sought-after Thing.
Mean
Wish
Getting Older
Another Good Thing About Being Poor Is That When You Are Seventy Your Children Will Not Have You Declared Legally Insane In Order To Gain Control Of Your Estate.
Money
Children
Order
Believing Would Be Easier If God Would Show Himself By Depositing A Million Dollars In A Swiss Bank Account In My Name
Believe
Names
Religion
Anything Worth Knowing Cannot Be Understood By The Human Mind.
Knowing
Mind
Humans
But What If Everyone In The World Behaved Like Me And Came Here And Shot Brisseau Through The Ear? What A Mess! And Of Course We'd Need Valet Parking.
What If
Needs
Ears
If I Just Got Up In The Morning And Had No Place To Go And Was Retired Or Something, I Would Be Sitting There And Be Thinking, "gee, What Is The Purpose Of Life? Why Are We All Finite? Why Do We Get Old And Die? Is There Nothing Out There? Why Is It So Tragic? Why Do Our Loved Ones Perish? Why Do We Generate?" Who Wants To Think About That Stuff?
Morning
Thinking
Would Be
Not Only Is There No God, But Try Finding A Plumber On Sunday.
Inspirational
Funny
God
There Are Worse Things Than Death. Many Of Them Playing At A Theater Near You.
Theater
I Love Nature, I Just Don't Want To Get Any Of It On Me.
Witty
Humorous
Want
I Do Occasionally Envy The Person Who Is Religious Naturally, Without Being Brainwashed Into It Or Suckered Into It By All The Organized Hustles.
Religious
Envy
Religion
Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't Out To Get You.
Mean
Paranoid
In Every Generation There Are A Few People Who Are Authentically Funny. The Cosmetics Change. You May Not Be Able To Articulate It, And You May Laugh At Them And Get A Certain Amount Of Enjoyment. But When You're Asleep At Night, And You Wake Up At 3 In The Morning, And You're Alone In Your Bed, You Know Who's Really Funny.
Morning
Night
Laughing
We Knew The Front Door Was Always Left Open, But We Broke In Just To Keep In Practice. Doxy Turned All The Washburn Family Photos To The Wall So There Wouldn't Be Any Witnesses.
Funny
Wall
Humor
A Tree Never Hits An Automobile Except In Self Defense.
Self
Tree
Defense
Taste My Tuna Casserole - Tell Me If I Put In Too Much Hot Fudge.
Hot
Tuna
Fudge
I Have Bad Reflexes. I Was Once Run Over By A Car Being Pushed By Two Guys.
Funny
Running
Humor
Many People Who Get A Lot Of Money Are Willing To Work With Me For No Money. This Is True.
People
No Money
Willing
He's A Genius, She's A Genius, Wow, You Know Alot Of Geniuses, You Should Meet Some Stupid People Sometime, You Might Learn Something
Witty
Stupid
Humorous
My Grammy Never Gave Gifts, You Know. She Was Too Busy Getting Raped By Cossacks.
Annie Hall
Busy
Cossacks
People Are Always Talking About The Dumbing Down Of The Country.
Country
Talking
People
I Wouldn't Mind Dying So Much If It Wasn't That I Would Be Dead At The End Of It.
Mind
Dying
Would Be
Is Sex Dirty? Only When It's Being Done Right.
Witty
Sex
Humorous
I Just Can't Listen To Any More Wagner, You Know...i'm Starting To Get The Urge To Conquer Poland.
Witty
Humorous
Conquer
Me Sitting Down For Dinner With Ingmar Bergman Felt Like A House Painter Sitting Down With Picasso.
House
Sitting Down
Dinner
I Want To Return To The Womb, Anyone's.
Want
Return
Womb
I Wish I Was Writing Something Much More Heavy Each Time I Did A Film, And That The Comedies Just Occasionally Come Out. But Unfortunately You're Stuck With What You're Born With.
Writing
Wish
Comedy
What Is It About Death That Bothers Me? Probably The Hours.
Hours
Bother
90 Per Cent Of Success Is Turning Up.
Cents
You're Still In Love' 'no I'm Not, I'm Not She'll Always Be A Part Of Me, And She's An Important Person In My Life But For The Two Of Us Something Wasn't Working.' 'what Element?' 'we Never Found Out
Two
Important
Elements
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