Barbara Sukowa Quotes
When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I said to Tim, 'I'm sorry, but I don't have enough imagination to pretend this girl is my husband!' And he said, 'Well, I'll read it with you.' Which was very nice; he was the director. And I ended up getting the part.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I can do whatever I want.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.
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I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll all be lovely and nice - but then they'll be one saying, 'I hate you; I'm unsubscribing' and that's the one that sticks out and stays on your mind all day.
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We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.
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I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I said to Tim, 'I'm sorry, but I don't have enough imagination to pretend this girl is my husband!' And he said, 'Well, I'll read it with you.' Which was very nice; he was the director. And I ended up getting the part.