Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I like to discover new things.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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And we hope that when they hear it, you know, it'll make people get out of their cars and just go live life to the fullest!
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I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.
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Clark Gregg is so cool. He's a pretty cool cat. People are drawn to him.
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
