Hermann Hesse Quotes
To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
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I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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My first ever sex scene in a movie was in 'Superbad.' Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward, but it worked out OK because when I watched the movie with her, the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened.
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Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.
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To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.
