Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
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Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
