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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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
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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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I strongly prefer to keep my hair loose and wavy, leaving it as natural as possible.
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The luxury that I have is I'm not career-minded, I just live from one film to the next. For a time, I was making documentaries, and all my documentaries were winning awards and stuff, and then I lost interest in documentaries.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.
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The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
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My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.
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The beet must be uprooted.
