Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
B. D. Wong -
I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
Frances McDormand -
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
Ban Ki-moon -
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
Imelda Staunton -
I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
Karel Reisz -
I never wanted to be a movie star.
Radha Mitchell
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
Yoko Ono -
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
Eric Lynn Wright -
I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
Gaby Hoffmann -
My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
Vincent Bugliosi -
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
Lars von Trier -
I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
Warren Ellis -
We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
Garry Marshall -
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Some feelings are to mortals givenWith less of earth in them than heaven;And if there be a human tearFrom passion's dross refined and clear,A tear so limpid and so meekIt would not stain an angel's cheek,'Tis that which pious fathers shedUpon a duteous daughter's head!
Walter Scott -
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
Henry David Thoreau
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Red is a colour I’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level. Of course, it is the colour of the interior of our bodies. Red is the centre.
Anish Kapoor -
When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.
Raja Krishnamoorthi -
People think, 'If I could only get motivated, then I'll act.' Nope. In actuality, it's the opposite.
Brendon Burchard -
Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that-for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty-is demonstrably untrue?
Charles Templeton -
It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians.
Robert Webb -
Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
Fyodor Dostoevsky