Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day and, when the mix was done, feeling like I wanted to hear it over and over again. It was the comprehensive sound of the thing: the song itself, its character, the way the instruments sounded, and the way Tom Scott's tight horn arrangement fit in.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.
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Scotland is undoubtedly the star of 'Outlander.' I'm so proud of the country and all it has to offer.
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Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.
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I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
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Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses.
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I think it's an actor's job, if you can, to keep working and to keep using that muscle. First of all, you've got to pay the bills, but it also helps you develop.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
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Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that's you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there's a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.
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Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.
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The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.
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I'm a director first and foremost, and I hope that the fact that I'm female is just one of the many things that informs my unique perspective on the world.
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It ain't over at 40. I haven't crested the best part of my career.
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We were always authentic when it came to our style. From when we started to the height of our fame, we've always been consistent in our look because how we dressed was a result of how we felt. We weren't playing dress-up.
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You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
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I am not ready to give up this country without a fight.
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I guess I would say: above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don’t like to drink, or you are attracted to the same sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you’ve got 3 different kids from 3 different dads but you know you’re a really good mom, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. But be a good person while you’re at it.
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I'm not really used to that, but I can't control weather. You have to work through it, and do the best you can. I'm sure it's a lot cooler in the summer, but what can I do? I just dealt with it.
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When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.
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I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.
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It takes a habit to replace a habit.
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They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!
