Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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My mum will always come and see my shows if she can, and if she can't, she'll text or email just before wishing me a great show and telling me how much she loves me. She still gives tonnes of positive reinforcement and love. It's really remarkable what that does for a child, and it's really remarkable what that does for me as an adult.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
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Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves.'We watch television,' Dave said.
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
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Eat your words! Eat your words! I am the greatest.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
