August Strindberg Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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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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I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they don't have to think about the state of the world; they're not even thinking about themselves so much. They're not trying to express their own experiences of that day or relationship strife or anything.
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We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
