Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
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I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.
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Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
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Men die and they are not happy.
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As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.
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Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
