Ernst Fischer Quotes
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
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Le désir s'accroît quand l'effet se recule.
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Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life. It is this larger significance of my election rather than any personal sense of honour that makes me rejoice on this occasion.
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If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.
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It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.
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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
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To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?
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My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.
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A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
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There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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The Americans don't like the American look but the Europeans just eat it up.
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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
