Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.
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Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
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In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.
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At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
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When you talk about being exceptional, you do two things: You clearly answer the question 'Who are you?' which is your purpose. And you answer the second question, 'Where are you going?' which is your aspiration and how you're going to get there.
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Just because people count you out and don't give you any love ... how about making them all fools?
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Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
