Max von Sydow Quotes
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
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If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.
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You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
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Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.
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...when we became independent and Nehru spelt out his vision, we appeared to be the leader, we are the only country which articulated the aspirations of Asia as a whole for the first time. Then other countries, small countries, big countries have come up asserting themselves, and, but still we are, because of our economic development, everybody knows that India is geographically a big central chunk of Asia and that it is an expanding economy. It is a technologically progressing society and in every field it is making a mark. And everybody recognises this role of India, but I think we have to articulate our position in Asia, in a new way, in a new set of circumstances that would appeal to everybody.
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.
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There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.
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We all work with one Infinite Power. We all guide ourselves by exactly the same laws.
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Awards are lovely and always welcome.
