Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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I always liked spy stories.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.
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Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.
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Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.
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Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
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To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
