Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
Quotes to Explore
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.
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As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
