Max Richter Quotes

We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not off. There's a lot going on!

Max Richter

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• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Up
  • Time
  • Small

• Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Why
  • Morning

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Know
  • Week
  • France

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • You
  • Talk
  • Doctor

• I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Die

• If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.

  

  Calvin Jillson
  • Education
  • Health
  • Care

• I like to work. I feel blessed that I'm working.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Work
  • Blessed

• I’ve always though of music as a physical thing, but the actual act of creating thick, LOUD and pretty pieces of sound through PA systems really made me lose my shit and realize that there was something pretty amazing about having music completely wash over you and stop you from thinking about anything else.

  

  Nigel Wright Shakatak
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Creating

• In a piece of my mind the world can't eraseI remember the time and the look on your faceAnd I will 'till the wind blows the stars from the sky'cause the road never ends and the soul never diesBe who you arejust as long as you canKnow in your heart I'm still your manHeadin for homestarlight and stone..

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Faith

• We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not off. There's a lot going on!

  

  Max Richter
  • Mind