Erich von Stroheim Quotes

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

Erich von Stroheim

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: September 22, 1885 - May 12, 1957

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The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.

John Edgar Wideman

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There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

John Lydon

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.

Anjelica Huston

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People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.

Jeanne Phillips

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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Jeff Bezos

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The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.

Slim Whitman

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I have been to Switzerland a handful of times, and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to climb.

Tommy Caldwell

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I like cashew nuts.

Domhnall Gleeson

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No one has a green light when they start a documentary - not ever.

Debra Granik

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People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.

Art Donovan

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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'Miller'. There's specific things about them that are written that are kind of the fingerprints of the first person who played that role, and so I like to think of it as a road map.

Phillipa Soo

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