Max von Sydow Quotes
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The world is always in movement.
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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The way I choose voice talent is I don't let them tell me who the actor is.
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I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.
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Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.
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In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.
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It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.
