Ernst Lubitsch Quotes
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.
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I'm not good at multi-tasking.
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Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.
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When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.
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I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
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In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average.
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The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.
