Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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I never really learned photography.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
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Every film is hard to fund.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
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I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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Videsne igitur quanto in caeno probra volvantur, qua probitas luce resplendeat? In quo perspicuum est numquam bonis praemia, numquam sua sceleribus deesse supplicia.
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
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When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.
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If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.
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Der Zufall ist die in Schleier gehüllte Notwendigkeit.
