Vaclav Havel Quotes

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

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• Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Dance

• Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.

  

  Randy West
  • Game
  • Joy
  • Always

• I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Real
  • Done
  • Me

• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
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• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Enemies
  • Forgive
  • Annoy

• The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Compassion
  • Genuine

• My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Singing

• It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Country
  • Living
  • Earn

• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Nervous

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• 'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Me

• To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Day
  • Telling
  • Grade

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

  

  Earl King
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Serious

• Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Work
  • Me
  • India

• I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Benefit

• My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Favorite

• We're always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Different
  • Moving
  • Always

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Lost
  • Sometimes
  • Media

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Me
  • Always
  • Influenced