Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossing the borders of your nation with Ebola virus.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
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I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
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The best therapy is actually the more aggressive kind when they break you open; they unleash you.
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There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
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I am forever living in my childhood.
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In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.
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The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.
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What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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I had a bunch of paintings around at my house, and someone said to me, 'Why don't you just put them on Instagram? Why don't you show people these?' And I didn't want to - it was just something else I would have to do. But eventually, I was like, 'What's the harm?' And the response was so insane!
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Somewhere we went wrong We were once so strong Our love is like a song You can't forget it at all.
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I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
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This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy.
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My hope as an actress is knowing that I'm someone who is more privileged - I'm biracial and lighter-skinned - and I hope it can open up the door for more women of color, especially darker-skinned black women. I hope everyone hops on the bandwagon and decides to start putting women of color in movies that aren't just about race.
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Ein Aphorismus ist der letzte Ring einer langen Gedankenkette.
