Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
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What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.
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Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.
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I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.
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I had a tightly knit group of female friends in elementary school - we called ourselves the Sensational Six.
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Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
