Emil Ludwig Quotes
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For me, family has always come first.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
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Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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Business is in itself a power.
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The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
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Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
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I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually.
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Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
