Hermann Hesse Quotes
In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
Quotes to Explore
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.
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I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.
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Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
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Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.
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The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.
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You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.
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I've never attended any Tea Party functions.
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It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.
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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
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Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.
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I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.
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They kept asking me over and over again whether I was having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend? I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him...
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I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.
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In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
