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.

Siegfried Lenz

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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.

Mads Mikkelsen
- Up
- Character
- High
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.

Madeleine Albright
- Hand
- Goal
- Friendship
You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

Nancy Kress
- Up
- You
- Without
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.

Irene Rosenfeld
- Want
- Control
- Leadership
One shouldn't know the future.

Zubin Mehta
- Future
- Know
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Oscar Levant
- God
- Friends
- Night