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1837 Director Quotes

I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'

Am Any Anyone Been
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I have reservations about everything I do.

About Have Everything Reservations
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Old age is the only disease you don't want to be cured of.

Old age Disease Cured of
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The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.

Trouble Movie Released Accident
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

Regard Career Precious Convictions
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I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

Think Word Explain Life
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I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

Pray Want Bore God
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I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

Never make Mind up Over Done with
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The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

Truth Man Calculated Sum
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My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

Definition Success Thrown at
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I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

Sincere towards Experimenting Fills Enthusiasm
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I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

Love Moving Town Spirit rising
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Serious stories World Failure Death
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By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
By nature Experimentalist Believe
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

Movie Production Greatest train
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

Believe Learning Peoples pictures
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Human nature Eternal Follows Keeps
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... walks out
Worth it Money Walks out
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Hate women Abstract way Never learns
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Opinion Two things Realistic Sexual act
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There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Intolerable things Life Cold coffee Lukewarm champagne
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Ignorance sheer Confidence Something about Profession
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Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

According Breaking Dignified Everything
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Joy Things Us
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I write music with an exclamation point!

Exclamation Music Point Write
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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

Am Any Convinced Currents
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I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Abyss Am Beings Fond
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

Achievements Credited Drudgery Result
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I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Big Chain Cheap Deprive
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Also Anything Ask Change
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Imagination creates reality.

Creates Imagination Reality
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I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

Achieve Artistic Been Convinced
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I wish I could score everything for horns.

Could Everything Horns Score
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Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

Fish Go Where Wherever
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Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Better Music Musician Richard
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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Divorce Even Financially Getting
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Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
Being Everything Inner Lasts
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How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!

Absurd Become Christian Critics
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I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

Agitation Blood Both Brought
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I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

Around Constantly Distract Enough
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I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

Artist Brains Common Enjoy
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Life is earnest - and always has been.
Always Been Earnest Has-Been
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In no State is there a weightier law than that which centers its stability in the supreme hereditary power of one particular family, unconnected and un-commingling with any other lineage in that State.

Any Centers Family Hereditary
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The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, as it were, to find his personal sacrifice repaid with ample interest through the might and greatness of his fatherland.

Above Ample Fatherland Find
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The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

Acts Measures Never Ourselves
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What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

Article Best Erect Forever
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I’m a disciplinarian, I don’t condone gossip and I don’t suffer fools easily

Disciplinarian Condone Gossip Fools
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If you think badly of people, bad things happen to you.
Think Badly Bad things Happen
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I like to learn, I’m open to sensible criticism, and I have a lot of respect for people with principles

Learn Sensible Criticism Respect
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Opinions are like noses, we are all entitled to one.

Opinions Noses Like Entitled
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