Richard Stengel (Richard Allen Stengel) Quotes
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.
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At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
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I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
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I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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'You're sure that we'll find someone suitable here?' 'Sure as eggs is eggs,' replied Sneezer. 'Surer even, eggs not always being what one might expect.'
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Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.
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I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.
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Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.
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I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.
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Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured.
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I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.
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We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.
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Courage is not the absence of fear...
