Max Aaron Quotes
I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
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An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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I love the Beatles.
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I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
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If the result of a war is to change nothing, but only to destroy, with the mere result that a group of human beings who do not differ notably from the conquered acquires preponderant advantages for the future, there is lacking the affective strength of an existence that has inspired faith, of an existence whose destiny would have been decided by the war.
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The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.
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I get to travel the world doing what I love to do - making other people happy... They might not even understand my words, but the one thing everybody understands is music.
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My goal was to have a company off the ground by the time I graduated. But the worst-case scenario was I would have an MBA and a lot of opportunities ahead of me.
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I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.
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I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
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It's kind of a loping stroke. It's not the prettiest stroke. But it's what's most efficient for me. And I think I kick a little more than most swimmers do.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.
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They make an interesting footnote in Meat Puppets history, as well as a preview of my Today's Sounds project.
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When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.
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Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
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None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.
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I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.
