Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
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I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
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It's funny because everyone says you sleep when baby sleeps or you take a nap when baby takes a nap. That's true when you have one. When you have two, that is not true.
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
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If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
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I knew better than to let you break my heart The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars You still love her I can see it in your eyes The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie.
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One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.
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We cannot and should not be reduced to just one sliver of ourselves, as it skews the truth of our lived experiences.
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I'd like to say 'thank you' on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
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It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
