Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off.
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It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.
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A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
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Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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Rappers act so wild, and love to profile, Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
