Ann Maxwell Quotes
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
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T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
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There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
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Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
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The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.
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I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.
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We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
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The wonderful thing about romance is that there are so many flavors of it!
