Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before - you've just got to try to think it all over again.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
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At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.
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I've learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.
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I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
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Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
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If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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Don't waste your crazy!
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.
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The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
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Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
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It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don't agree with us.
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There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before - you've just got to try to think it all over again.
