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.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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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.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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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.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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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.
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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.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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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!
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While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
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If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
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What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.
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The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.
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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
