Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
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I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.
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I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
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I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
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The urge to destroy is a creative urge.
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When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.
