Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
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The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.
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I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.
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It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.
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I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.
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With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.
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No subject is unsuitable for comedy.
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Disrespect is real stuff.
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It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us
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It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
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Love is something that never goes out of style.
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We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.
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I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new.
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The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.
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Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.
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I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
