Wolfgang Hildesheimer Quotes
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
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If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
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The facts are on our side.
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.
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I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
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A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
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I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
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My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
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We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can't help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.
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I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
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All of my writing is God-given.
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Cities are about juxtaposition.
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September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.
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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
