Max Richter Quotes
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	I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.   
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	You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.   
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	I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.   
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	In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.   
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	Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.   
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	'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.   
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	I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.   
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	I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.   
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	The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.   
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	Yes, I certainly look for strong characters - whether that means they're strong in their vulnerability or strong in the way they might be attractive to lots of blokes.   
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	You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.   
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	I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.   
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	American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.   
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	There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.   
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	If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.   
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	Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.   
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	I do not believe in hypocrisy.   
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	Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.   
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	To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.   
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	Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.   
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	On his good mornings, I don't suppose there are more than a handful of men in the W. 1 postal district of London swifter to spot oompus-boompus than Bertram Wooster, and this was one of my particularly good mornings. I saw the whole hideous plot.   
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	I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.   
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	You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					