Franz Werfel Quotes
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
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You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.
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My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
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When you like something, you find time to do it.
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'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?
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Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.
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A novelty loses nothing by the fact that it is a novelty; it rather gains something, and particularly if it meets the national fancy for the terse, the vivid, and, above all, the bold and imaginative.
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'We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know,' Mel said. 'People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.'
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I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias.
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.
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You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
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Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.
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Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.
