Adrienne von Speyr Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
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Here, everything was chaos. People I didn’t know kept grabbing me right before I was supposed to go on, putting things in my hand and instructing me to hold still while they took pictures.
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I was very focused on school. No social life whatsoever.
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Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.
