Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
Vince Gill
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
Imre Kertesz
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
Naguib Mahfouz
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
Victoria Aveyard
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
R. A. Salvatore
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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
Olivia Wilde
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
Sally Watson
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We can learn from everybody, man.
Dan Quinn
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
Saint Ambrose
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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
Nancy Kerrigan
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My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.
Samantha Power
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I don't really go out, 'go out' that much anymore. I live in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, so I just like to wander around. Williamsburg's such a cool little neighborhood community spot.
Zoe Kravitz
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I really wanted to work and become independent.
Victoria Abril
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There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.
Arthur C. Clarke
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
Fyodor Dostoevsky