Maximilian Schell Quotes
When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I don't read books.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.
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The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.
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I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.
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When you lose someone whose life was so extraordinary like my dad's, you have two options: You can curl up in a dark corner... or rise above it and dust yourself off and continue with their work. He will always be with me.
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It's the story of my life; I spend my life reorganising my closet. My husband thinks I'm crazy, and I change the rules every six months.
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When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
