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Harry Graf Kessler Quotes

I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.

Harry Graf Kessler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: diplomat
Nationality: german
Birth: May 23, 1868 - November 30, 1937

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I Am Intense Wearing Am Utterly

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

Looking Wings Kid Out Backstage

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

Melanie Lynskey

Drive Mother-In-Law Go Know Two See

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

Sports Economics Someone Creating

I have a very simple philosophy when it comes to casting, and it really is casting the best person for the role.

Best Simple Philosophy Person Role

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

Robert Bourassa

Nothing More System Democratic Than

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

History Book Violence Attention Copy

I have female friends who work in all different mediums who I speak to at least once a week. It helps me so much to know that I'm not alone. I think that's the bare minimum you need to sustain yourself - some sort of context of other women making things.

Work Women Alone Yourself Me Think

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

Life Opportunity Know Skills Never

In Italy, everybody buys silver for every special occasion. Baptisms, weddings, you get silver.

You Silver Special Get Italy Every

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Best Poetry Moments Minds Happiest

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Man Destiny Become Make He Himself

Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.

Shaquille O'Neal

Time Team Prison Place Right Time

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