Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.

D. B. Weiss
- People
- Car
- Dog
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Rainer Maria Rilke
- Dog
- Mirror
- Humble
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

Hansika Motwani
- Film
- Acting
- Skills
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
- Family
- Dog
- Guitar
If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.

Zach Galligan
- People
- Remember
- Movie
I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

E. G. Marshall
- Thinking
- Character
- Fire