Maxwell Anderson Quotes
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?
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I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
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The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
