Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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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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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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I am a medium. In the same way, doctors are mediums to bring treatment.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
