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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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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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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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
