Max von Sydow Quotes
My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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Is the flow of time something real, or might our sense of time passing be just an illusion that hides the fact that what is real is only a vast collection of memories?
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I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick is not to make it obvious. I've written an entire chapter about this in my book, 'The Successful Novelist.' I've lectured about it extensively, but have yet to see many people pick up on it.
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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
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Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.
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My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.
