Wim Wenders Quotes
So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
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I am a Buddhist.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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I had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like the place where I trust myself the most in the world and felt the most confident.
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She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.
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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
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No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
