Max von Sydow Quotes
It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I am not honest.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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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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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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This game will be our toughest challenge of the three years. Pallotti is a really solid team. I don't know if we can score enough points to win, but I believe if we can get 45 points, we will have a real good chance of winning the game.
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At the end of the day, you entertain for few hours, but people remember a good human being for a longer time.
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How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.
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I love working out.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.
