Max Winkler Quotes
If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
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I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.
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I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
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Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
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The 'enduring theme' in fiction of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.
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I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.
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I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
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If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.
