Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
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We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
