Franz Kafka Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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My life was changed in one breath from God.
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Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.
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He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator". For “god" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body "as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
