Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
Der Umgang mit einem Egoisten ist darum so verderblich, weil die Notwehr uns allmählich zwingt, in seine Fehler zu verfallen.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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James is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
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People who do not have funny in them are not funny when they read funny lines. Sorry. Just doesn't work that way. Seriously, this is the biggest rule of all. You live and die with your casting decisions. Your actors are the heart and soul of the whole thing. Without brilliant actors, you will not have a brilliant film.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.
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It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
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Der Umgang mit einem Egoisten ist darum so verderblich, weil die Notwehr uns allmählich zwingt, in seine Fehler zu verfallen.
