Max Landis Quotes
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
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Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.
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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
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Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.
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And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day
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If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
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When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'
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The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'
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The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.
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I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time.
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The first time I was ever impressed with Patagonia as a brand was when they released the 'Don't Buy This Jacket' campaign. That campaign highlighted their understanding of their role in a larger environmental justice space.
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There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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What's special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.
