Etty Hillesum Quotes
I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
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I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
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When you make a promise, keep it.
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Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
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You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.
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Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly-hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
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Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
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I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.