Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
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When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.
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Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?
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I don't want to be any problem to him, ... I just want to be somebody that, when he has a problem, he can come talk to me about it.
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The only constant in the technology industry is change.
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I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.
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Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
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Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.
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What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.
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That's one thing about Dave Filoni. He doesn't call me up unless there's something to think about or there's something that we have to work out on a philosophical or moral or a mythological riddle that we need to solve. Some sort of moral conundrum that we need to place our feet on one side or the other. It's fun when we can ambiguously put those feet into the sand and let the fans discover for itself what it all means.
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I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
