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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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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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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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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I think I put a lot of special attention towards creating interesting textures and unique sounds. Music essentially boils down to two main elements: rhythm and melody. I feel tones and textures often get overlooked, so I like to take my time finding the right sounds.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
