Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
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I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.
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As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.
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While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.
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The best ruler, the one who is of any real value, should not only perform all the duties which fall to his lot, but should provide for the rest of his subjects, so that they can develop their virtues to the full.
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One of the peculiar features of history is that time always erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later leads to a counter-invention.
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The deed is everything, the glory nothing.
