Max von Sydow Quotes

We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

Max von Sydow

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• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Yourself
  • Hollywood

• For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Effort
  • Same

• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Possible
  • Coincidences

• Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • Moving
  • Dance

• If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Women
  • Suffering

• With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Silly
  • Get

• I am someone who isn't always perfect.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Perfect

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Family
  • Day
  • Christmas

• I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Want
  • Best
  • I Can

• Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Things
  • Emotion
  • Inside

• Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Start

• There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' And what brings me peace is the scripture.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Peace
  • Jesus

• We will keep pounding ISIL and taking out their leaders, and pushing them back on the ground. And united with a global coalition, we will destroy this barbaric terrorist group. They will be destroyed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Destroy
  • Leaders
  • Ground

• I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Life
  • Different
  • Writing

• What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Alone

• To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden

• Ten years after NAFTA, Mexico's leading export to America is still — Mexicans. America is becoming Mexamerica.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America

• Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Hell
  • Beats

• We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

  

  Max von Sydow