Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.
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There were times I'd be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, 'If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don't know what I'll do.'
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I always wanted children, to be a dad. That was as important to me as being an actor.
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While there's life, there's fear.
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Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
