Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
Quotes to Explore
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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I have a very short attention span.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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I grew up with the 'Star Wars' movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
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I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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Nothing is more common than good things: the point in question is only to discriminate them; and it is certain that they are all natural and within our reach and even known to all mankind.
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What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
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...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
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If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
