Dagmar Godowsky Quotes
[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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Pave your own path and be fearless.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The world is no longer against us.
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I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
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I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
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My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.
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Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.
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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
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I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.
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[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.
