Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
Quotes to Explore
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
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Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.
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I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.
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By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.
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In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!
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Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
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I think it certainly is the responsibility of the rich to support and regenerate society.
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My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
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I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.
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It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
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I can be prickly and difficult on set.
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If I keep striving to put on the best quality show based on the values I have, I don't have to think "oh we're crossing the line" because the line is built in. We follow that and do the best quality work we can.
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Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?
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Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
