Otto Dix Quotes
My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.
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We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
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I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.
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My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!
