Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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The Candy Man can
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My whole career's been kind of crazy, so you can't really surprise me.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.