Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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I've learned never say never.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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I'm here to fight; I'm not here to protect whether you think I'm a good person or not. I've given up on that.
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I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
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So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
