Wim Wenders Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.
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Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.
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I don't bother with drugs myself 'cause I'm at that age now; I don't need to. If I want a rush, I just get out of a chair when I don't expect it. Forget to give yourself a couple of days notice before you tie your shoes. Whoosh! What a rush!
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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
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I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.
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The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.
