Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
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Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place in the world that's not Des Moines.
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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
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As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.
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I don't really hate a lot of songs, but I think Weezer has put out some songs I really hate because they've also put out a lot of songs I really like.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
