Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
Vince Staples -
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams -
You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
Aaron Paul -
I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
Kate Klise -
I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
Mandy Patinkin -
It's the irrational things that interest me.
Harrison Birtwistle
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
Gary Sinise -
I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
Maira Kalman -
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
Adam Carolla -
I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
Sam Rockwell -
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
Kate Millett -
I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
Viggo Mortensen -
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
Mac Thornberry -
I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
Gallagher -
A day on a film set is maddening.
Maggie Siff
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The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
Ted Cruz -
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
Marianne Williamson -
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton -
I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.
Etgar Keret -
Going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way.
Jostein Gaarder