Monica Hesse Quotes
I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A hitchhiker's thumb might arc into a 90-degree angle; mine will go to 135.
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers. I was the first to do both. It was a great deal hard work, but I got a lot of support and love from my audience. And for me to receive the same treatment overseas, I felt that I was also very lucky.
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We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
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After it is said and done about who does what on the Batman assembly line, I do not underestimate all of the help I've received.
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Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.
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There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade. (13th February 1945)
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
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When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
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The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.
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Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.
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I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A hitchhiker's thumb might arc into a 90-degree angle; mine will go to 135.
