Max von Sydow Quotes
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.
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But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.
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All my life I've been looking for diversity.
