Leni Riefenstahl Quotes
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
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To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
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The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.
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Reality doesn't interest me.
