Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Quotes to Explore
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.
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I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.
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I came up with a 'forecasting cell,' which is basically a mixed intention cell or chord that is a complete hybrid of a consonance and a dissonance, and what that does when you are improvising is lead you to where you are supposed to go.
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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
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Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
