Ursus Wehrli Quotes
What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.
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The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
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Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think? What about the authority, the authenticity that comes from bringing all your intellectual, emotional and spiritual equipment to a piece of art or entertainment whilst still being uncertain and confused?
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
