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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I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.
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The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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I wasn't gonna paint. And I wasn't gonna do ostentatious drawings. I wasn't gonna have gallery pictures. I was gonna hide somewhere where nobody would find me and express myself entirely. I'm like a guerrilla warfare in my best books.
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Künstler, was du nicht schaffen mußt, das darfst du nicht schaffen wollen.