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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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
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The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.
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It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.
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Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.
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Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
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Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.
