Franz Kafka Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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All of everything we've ever done has been riding on low expectations. 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' a terrible idea. Doing '21 Jump Street' as a movie is a terrible idea. 'The Lego Movie' sounds like a terrible idea.
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When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.
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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
