Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.
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My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
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The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
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I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!
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Dancers are the athletes of God.
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A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
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I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
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If your income on films or whatever you're producing using film drops below a certain level, then you don't have enough money to stay in business. People like to say that this is all just about making money, but if you don't make money, you don't make anything.
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They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
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I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"
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The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.
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In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
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I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
