Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.
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You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.
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Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
