Max Frisch Quotes
My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.
Quotes to Explore
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
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After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.
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You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But you want to talk about it in a derogatory fashion. You say the superstar has fallen. But you've never called me a superstar ever. It's only that you use these words when you want to say something derogatory.
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My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.
