Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking.
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And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?
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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.