Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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.
Vikram Seth -
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas -
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
Barbara Corcoran -
Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
Dana Hussein -
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
Ice T -
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
Zaha Hadid
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
Ian Watson -
There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
Jack Kemp -
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett -
I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
Natalie Massenet -
When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
Ian Schrager -
It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
Imran Amed
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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!'
Cara Buono -
I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
Valerie Harper -
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri -
'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
Salli Richardson -
I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
J. D. Souther -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
Dambisa Moyo -
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.
T.I. -
I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
Larry Bishop -
Woe to the man who offends a small child!
Fyodor Dostoevsky