Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
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If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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What's the point of staying sober?
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
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My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
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Nothing lasts forever in my profession.
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It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
