Jens Voigt Quotes
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
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To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
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If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
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The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
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A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.
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Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.
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When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.
