Friedrich Schiller Quotes
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
