Barbara Sukowa Quotes
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I'm not politically correct.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
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It did not seem possible to withstand another shock like this now coming on. Our loss had been severe.
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I've honestly always been an overly analytical, highly observant person. I was playing music but thinking about it at same time, which was sort of exhausting. Aside from the pain of writing - you're not really in a gang like you are in band, it's a little bit lonelier - I think it was always something that I'd wanted to do. So the transition wasn't abrupt or painful.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
