Max Lerner Quotes
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Midi is my hobby.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'
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'Cause I've got friends in low placesWhere the whiskey drownsAnd the beer chases my blues away.And I'll be okay.I'm not big on social graces;Think I'll slip on down to the oasis.Oh, I've got friends in low places.
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Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.
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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
