Max Frisch Quotes
You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.
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I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.
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Many movies about people recovering, moving on, and redeeming themselves are really wonderful and inspiring. But I think the more sentimental ones that are less good make me feel isolated - like, if you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the guys in the movies, there is something wrong with you. That's a shame.
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You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself
