Heinrich Mann Quotes
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
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The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
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A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.
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I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.
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At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
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I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.
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And my father, after all, was a nationalist.
