Gunter Grass Quotes

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

Gunter Grass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: October 16, 1927 - April 13, 2015

Topics

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Every apartment I've ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.

Joe Gebbia

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From the moment you say 'action,' this is the fun part - things should happen that surprise you, excite you, scare you, turn you on, make you laugh. If things aren't surprising you, when you say 'cut,' whisper things to the actors that will make them do things that do surprise you.

Jill Soloway

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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Stephen King

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I want to work with Bayona again. I keep emailing my agent about it. Even the smallest role, I'll do it.

Tom Holland

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In sports, especially skiing, you have to be comfortable with risk. You have to have a relationship with fear, and it can't dominate the decision-making process.

Molly Bloom

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We are continuing to collaborate with Disney on future films and other opportunities.

Mindy Grossman

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I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

Derek Luke

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In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

Anthony Mackie

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I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.

Anne Reid

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I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Persis Khambatta

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

Lindsey Graham

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