Lotte Lenya quotes
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“[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.”
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“[After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!”
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“[I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a beautiful blue heron flew over the brook. Nature can make me cry faster than anything.”
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“When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.”
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“Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience.”
-- Lotte LenyaSource : "Fictional character: Rosa Klebb". "From Russia with Love", www.imdb.com. 1963.
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Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
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“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”
Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147
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“I'm not crazy, i'm just sensitive”
Source : Song: Sensitivity, Album: In Your Atmosphere
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“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
Source : Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”
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“I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.”
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Source : Charles Alexander Eastman (1980). “The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press
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“I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.”
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