Manfred von Richthofen Quotes
It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne says, 'Easy reading is damn hard writing.' I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
