Georg Hermes Quotes
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
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Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.
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When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.
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Someone – a man – advised me not to become a news anchor because my eyelashes were too long, and they would distract the viewers.
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I want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.
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I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
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One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
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I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
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It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.
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One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.
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Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
