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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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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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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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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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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As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.
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Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
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Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.
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All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
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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.
