Franz Grillparzer Quotes
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I am a Zionist.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere else.
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My dad talks about the times when we'd play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I'd just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that's been tempered a bit over the years.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'
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We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
