Max Martin Quotes
It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up in the car, in the shower.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
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Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.
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Uber is a good car service, and that's exactly what they were when we launched.
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I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.
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Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.
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It's never like, 'Now I'm going to sit down and write this or that kind of song.' The melodies may show up in the car, in the shower.
