Hermann Hesse Quotes
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
Quotes to Explore
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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Women love energy and grand results.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
