Max von Essen Quotes
If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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I'm a real romantic.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
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I'm definitely always drawn to the injustice of people who have been imprisoned for things they didn't do. But also lots about abortion and gay marriage. Civil issues are usually what I am drawn to.
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'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.
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If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
