Philipp Meyer Quotes
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.
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I was still proud of that momentback thenwhen Jed handed methat pintandI draineda third of itwith all the discipleswatching.damn, there was no wayit seemedwe could everlosebut we did.and it took me3 or 4 decades tomove on just alittle.and Jed,if you are still heretonight,(I forgot to tell youthen)here's a thanksfor that drink.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
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Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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Whenever I'm interested in something, I make sure I'm really good at it.
