Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
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There is clearly risk associated with empowering your team to make more and faster decisions at a lowerlevel than was previously the norm. As you take your hands off the wheel, you need to be more vigilant and aware than ever about the decisions your team is making.
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
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You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw.
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To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
