Siegfried Lenz Quotes
Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
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Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
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Memorable providence, relating to witchcraft's and possessions. (1689) 1
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Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
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I basically stay in jewelry all the time. I have the same couple of necklaces, earrings, and rings, and they usually don't come off my body.
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Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.
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I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
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People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
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I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.
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Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.
