Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
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What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
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I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
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I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.
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When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
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My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before...The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit.
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In the desert of my dreams I saw you there;And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare.But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed.And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared.Oh why?
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Burns stated that 'We've got to remember that the people who first hit us in 9/11 entered this country through Canada.'
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I tell guys all the time, you see me messing up, get at me. I want you to get at me.
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I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
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A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
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The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.
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People will speak slowly to me sometimes. And they always ask me if I'm all right, because I'm much more low-key and reserved than my character in 'Friends'.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
