Werner Herzog Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.
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Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
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I completely agree with feeling the need for or the benefits of being pushed and of being directed on a project and collaborating.
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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist
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I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.
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I think the whole DVD craze has provided opportunities for material that, for those interested in it, explains the whole history and background in getting a film made, which is great.
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Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
