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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Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.
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Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't afford. That's a reality.
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Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
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When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show an African or a Black Caribbean. When African-Americans come to France, the French people are like, 'Oh, wow. Oh my God.' But if it's an African, they're like, 'Whatever.' It's all because of the past, because of our history.
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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.
