Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I want to make smart choices.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.
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I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me.
Colson Whitehead -
You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
