Max Frisch Quotes

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

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• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

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• I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

  

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• The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.

  

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• It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

  

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• My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

  

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• I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

  

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• I don't really care where I go because wherever I go, they're going to get a very talented, driven guy that's going to get every inch of his potential out, max everything I have in my body out.

  

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• When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

  

  Max Frisch
  • Friend