Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (Bertolt Brecht) Quotes
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.
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I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.
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When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades.
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Don't trust anyone over thirty.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliche. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.
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Mr. Wurlitzer, I am now in a position to receive your organ.
