Maximilian Schell Quotes
I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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Fan reactions are crazy sometimes.
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There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
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During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.
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When you're in elected office, you always have to operate under the assumption that you're in a dog fight for re-election. It's when you don't prepare for a tough battle, when you're caught flat-footed, that you're vulnerable.
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Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.
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Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.
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People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
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It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.
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I'll never forget Spencer Tracy. He only worked from nine to one - then from three to five again.
