Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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I need to work to feel well.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
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We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.
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I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
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Most of my work may happen at a computer, but it's still a new and very exciting frontier.
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I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer.
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Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.
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A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
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The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.
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I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
