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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The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
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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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By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"
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I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.
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The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
