"My work in those years was essentially of a propagandist nature. I was too young and unknown to play a part in the leading circles of Germany, let alone of world Zionism, which was controlled from Berlin."

-- Nahum Goldmann

#Years Quotes #Play Quotes #Circles Quotes

“I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.”
“Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”
“That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.”
“There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.”
“It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'”
“I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.”
“Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.”
“It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.59, Random House

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