Maximilian Schell Quotes
I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.Maximilian Schell
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The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
Nana Mouskouri -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.
Padgett Powell -
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
Barbara Mikulski -
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
Kate Chopin -
The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.
Narendra Modi
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I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on some level. But it no longer compels me the way it did for so many years.
Ira Sachs -
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
Gary Ross -
I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.
Zachary Quinto -
Writing is a strange and solitary activity.
Patrick Modiano -
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
Pablo Picasso
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An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.
Edward Bellamy -
I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.
Charli XCX -
I mean, I couldn't ask for a better life, man.
Freddy Adu -
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
Brené Brown -
'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.
Ken Liu -
I can't believe, even in 'The Guardian,' people ask the questions, 'Where did ISIS come from?' 'How did this happen?' 'Why do young Muslim women go off to join them?' Maybe because we've been degrading their people since 1917. Maybe their teenage years are a little bit more stressed than that of Christianity.
Mark Rylance
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A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
Seneca the Younger -
We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation.
Barack Obama -
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.
Oliver D. Crisp -
Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.
Craig T. Nelson -
I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.
Maximilian Schell