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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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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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
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Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
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Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.
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I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.
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We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
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The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
