Oliver Herford Quotes
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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Kobe Bryant has always been my favorite player, and he was drafted No. 13, too, in 1996.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;- The things o'er which thou mournest-are they not playthings all?
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What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
