Max Lerner Quotes
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.
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Those life experiences that helped shaped my political beliefs are with me in every position I take and every vote that I cast - whether it be in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, strengthening Social Security and Medicare, or improving our nation's education system.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
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We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
