Max Frisch Quotes
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
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Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.
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The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.
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Everyone is going to die.
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Art is my life and my life is art.
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The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.
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I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
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I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.
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When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
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It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.
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Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.
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You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
