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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They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
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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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You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.
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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.
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But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven – number seven it can count. They have made an observation. They are very clever birds.
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...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.
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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.
