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Love is like a flower, even the most beautiful kind dies.
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Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
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When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.
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I love doing both theater and television.
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As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.
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We stand at an immense fork in the road. One way is the path of generosity, dignity and a respect for other races and customs; the other leads most certainly to greed, suspicion, hatered and the old, bloody course of violence and waste - and now, God help us, to the very destruction of all the struggles and triumphs of the human race on this earth. My old friends and fellow townsmen: which will it be?
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My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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When I work alone, and I'm in my studio, and I'm playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
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When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
