Wolfgang Hildesheimer Quotes
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.
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I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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Well, suffering swordfish," exclaimed Fishlegs. "Hiccup is LEFTHANDED.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
