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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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
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No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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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.
