Elias Canetti Quotes
One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That's the secret to a great schnitzel.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
