Maximilian Schell Quotes
I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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No two wars are identical.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.
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Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
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I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.
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It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.
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I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.
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I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
