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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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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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 went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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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 used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
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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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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
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Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
