Max Apple Quotes
Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
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The songs are just an attempt to document what's been happening in my life. If people can relate to what's going on with me, then that's great.
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I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
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I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.
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Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.
