Max Charles Quotes
When I finish my school work for the day, I like to go play basketball, ride my bike or skateboard, play video games, or go free running.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
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As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images, the trowel of point of view, and then you delicately lift and brush in the revision with love and care knowing that one slip, and you might damage an extremely delicate thing.
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When I finish my school work for the day, I like to go play basketball, ride my bike or skateboard, play video games, or go free running.
