Franz Kafka Quotes
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
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I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.
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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
