Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.
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Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
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I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all.
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Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!
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Churches should be able to decide what kinds of unions are sanctified by their denomination, but not what kinds of unions are accepted in the civil arena.
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I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for...
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...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
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The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.
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What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.
