W. G. Sebald Quotes
I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry[the geometric measurement of solid bodies], between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.
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I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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The 1960s were really a life-changing time.
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I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry[the geometric measurement of solid bodies], between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.
