Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
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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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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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You have to open up on stage.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!
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Don’t stand in front of the TV when other people are watching it.
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
