Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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Do all things with love.
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
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Even things that are true can be proved.
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It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.
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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
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I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
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Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.
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For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.
