Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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• I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Long
  • Me
  • Voice

• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Body
  • Greek
  • Cheese

• You look marvelous!

  

  Fernando Lamas
  • You
  • Look
  • Marvelous

• When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Power
  • Debt

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Describe

• Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Desire
  • Movement
  • Western

• Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Name
  • Down
  • Cotton

• I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Now

• There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Say

• We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Prayer

• A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Difficult

• A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • History
  • Game
  • Team

• If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • America
  • Want
  • Attention

• Execution is the chariot of genius.

  

  William Blake
  • Genius
  • Execution
  • Chariot

• The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Listening

• My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• I'm always thinking about time. That's one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people's everyday lives.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Up
  • Help
  • Friend

• You can't take back an act you were able to think.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt