Hermann Hesse Quotes
He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.
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I think that young British designers have a kind of fearlessness in they way they approach fashion.
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He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.
