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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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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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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I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
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My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
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...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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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.
