Max von Sydow Quotes

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Max von Sydow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: April 10, 1929

Topics

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One thing which I know about this world of glamour is that it is better to have people talking about you than not being talked about at all.

Sonakshi Sinha

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As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Steven Pinker

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My parents are from north London, and so it's not like I'm some Yank who wants to make a profit out of football. I don't care about making money. I just want to see Spurs succeed and, if I can help, that's great.

Steve Nash

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I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.

Rufus Wainwright

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Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

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In 'Who's Who,' my hobbies are listed as eating, sleeping, and voicing one's opinion. Not necessarily the right opinion, but it's mine.

Louise Wilson

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Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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The music that I'm known for is quiet and gentle, although when I was growing up and as a teenager, I was playing the opposite - I was screaming and playing bass and those loud electric guitars.

Jose Gonzalez

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The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

Douglas Rushkoff

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The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.

Douglas Wilder

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If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'

Donna Brazile

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By the time I enrolled in the military at 20, I had spent years in denial about who I really was. I was openly gay and would go through periods of cross-dressing, and had even thought about transitioning, but I was in such complete denial.

Chelsea Manning

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