Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.
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It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.
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I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.
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The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.
