Siegfried Lenz Quotes
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.
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I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
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As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
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I've got a waistline to develop.
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I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.
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I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.
