Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.
Quotes to Explore
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
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Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.
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I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.
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I never wrote music for the mainstream.
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Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.
