Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
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Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.
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A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.
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The mid-eighteen-thirties marked the rise of eugenics and racialism, with phrenology emerging as just one of the many pseudosciences that sought to enact, reinforce, and restrict racial difference.
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I am a Southern girl at heart, so I have a pulled pork sandwich and Key lime pie every day. It's a problem.
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In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don't have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell.
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Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.
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To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
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Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet.
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
