Max Aaron Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
-
When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
-
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
-
Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
-
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
-
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
-
I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
-
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
-
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
-
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
-
When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
-
I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
-
I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
-
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
-
I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
-
I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
-
Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.
-
I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.
-
It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.
-
My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.
-
There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.
-
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.
-
I'll fight anybody.
