Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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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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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
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Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
