Max von Sydow Quotes
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
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I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
