Gertrud von Le Fort Quotes
The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
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You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.'
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.
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We can take a 'It was hard to get there.' But we ain't taking no loss. We're going to win.
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I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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In this day and age, when there are so many people creating work online and writing their own shows, I wouldn't tell another actor, 'If you can do anything else go do that.' I would tell them to figure out the story they want to tell, to figure out what artists inspire you and why, and then figure out a way you can create that for yourself.
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The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.
