Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
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Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.
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I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.
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When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in (evolution) it holds everybody back, really.
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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
