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 watched videos of great players. I was inspired by what they did, then I used to try things out in training.
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We were very fortunate to escape with a win over such a good team and a well-coached team.
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I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
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Growing up, I was listening to a ton of Motown music, Otis Redding, Aretha, and then there was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin. These were all people that I felt as though they truly felt every single lyric they said, and they weren't afraid of imperfection.
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There's certainly enough writers and directors and actors who secretly aspire to make movies and films that agree with the center-right perspective, and I would argue the majority perspective in America.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
