Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Funny is an attitude.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
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The one thing that no Anglo-Saxon can stand is to be ruled by someone who 'talks fancy' by using Latinate words too often.
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I've always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew I wasn't going to develop a real career, and I wanted to get closer to filmmakers that I wanted to work with.
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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
