Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but ifsome kind of sin you must be pursuing,Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.
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For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down.
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You can't be serious all the time. You got to mix it up.
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There is no question that we are in a period in which we are going to have to use those sources to fund about 35 million dollars a year that used to be paid for by the federal government.
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I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe - although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.
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The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
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I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.
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We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs who are in the kitchen.
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Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.
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A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.
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When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
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Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.
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And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.
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Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.
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My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?
