Joschka Fischer Quotes
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
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Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
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I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.
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Faith is central to my life. I am who I am, I do what I do because of my faith.
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Death is the hardest question, and in an age that gives short shrift to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, it is not surprising that death is the single most obvious fact of life from which we constantly insulate our kids. We have, to our detriment, created a cult of denial about our own mortality. Life needs to be lived and prioritized with the understanding that it is limited.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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You know a good board when you see one.
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Solutions must be based on compromises.
