D.T. Max Quotes
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
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I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.
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Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
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Use plants to bring life.
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Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
