Oliver Herford Quotes
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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Africa is the future.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
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This is a personal movie that I knew I had to come here to make,
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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
