Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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You look marvelous!
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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.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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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.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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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.
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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!
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There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
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We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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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.
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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.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
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Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster.
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God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
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You can't take back an act you were able to think.
