Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
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The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
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I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
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There's nothing good about divorce.
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I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.
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It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
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There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're a director unless you believe it.
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Dreams never wear you down.
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We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
