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.
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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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.
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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.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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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.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
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I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
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It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.
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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.
