Max von Essen Quotes
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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Because the sin which she encouraged him to commit was in all likelihood a sin of sensuality, woman is more intensely exposed to the danger of descent into stark carnality. And when this happens, she always becomes once again the evil seductress, whereas, paradoxically, God has specifically enjoined her to combat evil.
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Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia caeli:Sedibus aetheriis spiritus ille venit.
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At night I wake up and think, What color will make me feel better when I soak in the bathtub for an hour? I want everyone who's dreaming of a glamorous life to know that I'd trade a good bath any day for the heels, the hair, the makeup, the tight dresses, the photographs, the small talk.
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Ain't going down 'til the sun comes up;Ain't givin' in 'til they get enough.Going 'round the world in a pickup truck,Ain't goin' down 'til the sun comes up.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
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I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.
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I wanted to talk about a lot of stuff that I've been through. Party-wise, it's taken me almost a decade to party enough to accumulate enough experiences that I could sing about and put in one song!
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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
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The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.
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For casual wear, I'm obsessed with Onassis in Soho. Hip-preppy and well priced.
