Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles, and no one is going to dream big for you. You have to have the fortitude and the resilience to stick with your own dreams. That can be hard.
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We are exceptionally pleased about where we are right now.
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
