Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.
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I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.
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I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.
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I've always been a huge fan of beauty.
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When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
