Franz Kafka Quotes
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I'm terribly, horribly shy.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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When I appeared in 'Coronation Street,' I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.
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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -- and he's a priest.
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I'd rather be real and hated, than fake and loved.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
