Ernst Toller Quotes
I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
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Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.
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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
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There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.
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Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
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It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.
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It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
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As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
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I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.
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Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural village - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns back to 'the present.'
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My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.
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I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
