Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
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A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.