Lisel Mueller Quotes
Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
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I write in a small office at home.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
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I've directed 'Raisin in the Sun' five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on seeing things in the script that you never saw before. That's what great pieces of art do.
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In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.
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I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I wish every medically retired serviceman could have a service dog. He's amazing. He's my best bud. I go everywhere and anywhere with him.
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Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
