Philipp Meyer Quotes
Mental note if you make it to forty remember on how all those fucks treated her. Stop being an asshole while you're still young.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
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A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
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When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.
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I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand.
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Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
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I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
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Mental note if you make it to forty remember on how all those fucks treated her. Stop being an asshole while you're still young.
