Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
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As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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Timing has a lot to with art.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.
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My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
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The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.
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Wherever there are ski resorts there will be daily updates. These will mostly relay information that is relevant to skiers - imminent snowfall, the likelihood of avalanches and so on - but it will also offer advice on any storm fronts that are expected. For anybody planning a trek, this is crucial information.
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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
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It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.
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I don't want to produce anyone that doesn't want to be produced by me.
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I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.
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All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
