Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
... people only count their misfortunes; their good luck they take no account of. But if they were to take everything into account, as they should, they'd find that they had their fair share of it.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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My father had very little formal education.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous, there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself, you know, have fun, take chances. There's no bounds.
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At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.
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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
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Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.
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One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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... people only count their misfortunes; their good luck they take no account of. But if they were to take everything into account, as they should, they'd find that they had their fair share of it.
