Max von Sydow Quotes
It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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This is a nature-boy movie, a kid's daydream of being an Indian. When Dunbar has become a Sioux named Dances with Wolves, he writes in his journal that he knows for the first time who he really is. Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head.
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When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."
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It's very difficult being an actor and being away for a lot of time, but my sons haven't complained too much too often.
