Emanuel Schikaneder Quotes
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations."
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Let's enjoy love: without it we cannot live.
