Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.
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Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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I don't think I'll ever feel like I'm cancer-free.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.
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It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
