Max Frisch Quotes
Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about itMax Frisch
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
No one pays me to be nice.
Aaron Allston -
I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
Naomie Harris -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
Victoria Pendleton -
What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
Fiona McIntosh -
You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
Danica Patrick -
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton -
I'm a political conservative.
P. J. O'Rourke -
For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
Floyd Skloot
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Ted McGinley -
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
Kary Mullis -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler -
Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
Wale -
I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
Eddie Marsan -
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
Barbra Streisand
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Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.
Paul Walker -
If he had told the voters in 1980 that truth, would American voters have signed the loan certificate for him on Election Day? Of course not! That was an election won under false pretenses. It was won with smoke and mirrors and illusions. And that's the kind of recovery we have now as well.
Mario Cuomo -
Everyone has an 'I thought Elliott was crazy' story.
Elliott Bisnow -
When you dance,Do your senses tingle?Then take a chance?In a trance,While the lonely mingleWith circumstance?
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.
William Butler Yeats -
Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it
Max Frisch