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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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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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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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Drugs scared me.
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If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.
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The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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If you value your wins and you value what you've done over the course of your career, then you wouldn't want people harboring over a loss, even though you fought extremely well.
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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.
