Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.
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I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.
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I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.
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I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.
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The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.
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My idea of putting the city on is giving inspiration to others to want to put themselves on. You should never depend on someone else to put you on. I used to do that, and it didn't get me anywhere.
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The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
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And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
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Kids, kids. As far as Daddy's concerned, you're both potential murderers.
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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
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We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.
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I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.
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It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...
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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
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I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
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Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
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Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.
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We can't go in the ring and think opponent is going to be like that from the last knockout. We don't know how he is personally. We have to go in there and wait and wait and wait and see what he has because he is still a dangerous opponent.
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One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.
