Roland Freisler Quotes
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.
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Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
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It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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Libya became a rat's nest of extremism after NATO helped depose dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it now exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
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My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.
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I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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My mom's mother was from Virginia, but I don't feel much of a tie. I'm very much anti-South for many, many reasons. Whenever I go down there, people are always looking at me funny, you know.
Colson Whitehead -
A lot of guys come out, and they do the exact same thing, are in the exact same mood, and have the exact same entrance every night, I really just make up a lot of crap as I go along.
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I have a strong sense of myself. That gives me a sense of security, you know? If I define myself by things that are always changing, like the public's opinion, or what I'm wearing, or what job I'm doing, there's no stability in that.
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Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
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I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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I just never really thought there could be something worse than death.
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
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I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible.
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New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I'm really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, 'I miss the old New York.' But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it's painted over.
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The beet must be uprooted.
