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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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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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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Pilates is great.
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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 younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
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I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
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Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.
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‘you must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.’ ‘Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.’
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As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.
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What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.
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My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home.
