Else Lasker-Schuler Quotes
My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Pilates is great.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.
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You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.
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I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves.
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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.
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My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.
