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 read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
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In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.
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I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.
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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.
