Georg Trakl Quotes
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The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on.
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I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
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Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our family and loved ones all around us!
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When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
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I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.
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I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer,And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.
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Multitudes, of beautiful works, Believed, served with us.
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The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.
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If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.
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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
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Nur dem, der Glück verachtet, wird Erkenntnis.
