Roland Freisler Quotes
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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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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I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
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There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.
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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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A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.
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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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I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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When I was in office I expressed admiration and respect and even affection for Republicans that I knew and liked and cared about, and I tried to find ways to work with them. I think the Democrats should do that, and just keep trying to lower the temperature.
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I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
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The beet must be uprooted.
