Franka Potente Quotes
I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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The thing I want to see before I die is women achieving full equality in the world. I'm very passionate about injustice against women and there's too much of it in the world. In so many parts of the world, women are not regarded as worthy or equal to men. In parts of the world, women are bought and sold.
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I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.
