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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Who doesn't like to get dressed up and eat good food?
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I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.
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Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.
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It was always easier to be disgusted after the fact. It was easier to shake your head and be outraged, as if the outrage was proof of civility - a sign that the world hadn't died, that it could still scream out in horror, proof that its heart was still beating.
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During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through - but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids.
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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
