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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I don't believe in the concept of working out rigorously to pump muscles. It may be effective, but when you stop working out, it comes back to square one.
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My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.
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The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
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Whenever I'm interested in something, I make sure I'm really good at it.
