Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
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If I started being braggy, my family would be like, 'Shut up, Maisie! Who cares? Get off the sofa.'
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More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.
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Rochester: checking his equipment Shaving cream, brush, razor, smelling salts.
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創造條件讓人民批評政府，監督政府，同時充分發揮新聞輿論的監督作用，讓權力在陽光下運行。
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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.
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If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?
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People talk a lot about, 'You're a Disney princess! You're Cinderella!' and this and that. But for me, it's all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That's the 'Cinderella' story for me.
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I despise shopping and department stores.
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.
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Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.
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I traveled nonstop in 2009, so when my son popped out and my passport expired for a while, I felt more than happy just to be at home here in Canada.
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It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
