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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Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.
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If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I'm a huge worrier.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
