Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Künstler, was du nicht schaffen mußt, das darfst du nicht schaffen wollen.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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The Rock will always come back to us.
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.
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I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
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I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.
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I want to make my own movie.
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What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.
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Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
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He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another.
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Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.
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I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
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Künstler, was du nicht schaffen mußt, das darfst du nicht schaffen wollen.
