Max Lerner Quotes
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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Time stays, we go.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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Sinatra asked me out.
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In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.
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We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
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Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.
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If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
