Max Apple Quotes
I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.
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Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
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Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.
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The destruction of the past, or rather of the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of ealier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century.
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I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
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I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.
