Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Quotes to Explore
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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But I think we need the international market.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.
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One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
