Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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My father and brothers were in the military.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
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When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
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I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.
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Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
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Wer immer strebend sich bemüht,Den können wir erlösen.
