Martin H. Fischer Quotes
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did, and real life was separate. And I'm starting to realize that the things that I do, making music and art and photography and all that, it's not just something that I do. It's who I am. So I don't think I'll ever be able to stop. It's like that curse that you live with, this thing that you love but you also hate it at the same time. It brings you a lot of joy but also a lot of heartbreak.
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'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.
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Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
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Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
