Egon Friedell Quotes
We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
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If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
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Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
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No one who has been martyred by the Jews should remain unknown. And no one who has been martyred by the Jews will remain unavenged.
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I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
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There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.
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We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill.
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We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.
