August Strindberg Quotes
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
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Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
