Daphne Merkin Quotes
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.
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I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
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I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
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There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.
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Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.
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Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos.
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I've never felt at home in Kortedala, or in Gothenburg, so I always felt like I needed to go somewhere and find some kind of perspective on things.
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A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order.
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I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.
