#k

If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#fear #feel #go #i #like

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#audience #creating #depends #different #different things

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#argue #awakens #certain #contest #creation

The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#attention #book #dense #film #foreign

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. ↗

— Bill Maher

#blindly #bragging #cleaner #derelict #duty

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that. ↗

— Bill Maher

#country #far #friend #friends #goes

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. ↗

— Bill Maher

#game #like #looks #mad #out

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#classes #difficult #egypt #like #must

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#been #effect #had #into #languages

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#brother #composer #died #far #gifted