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!
Walt Handelsman -
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
Victoria Pratt -
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac -
It's always an honor to represent your country.
Sammy Sosa -
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.
Hannah Kent -
I've always dreamed of having a large family.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer -
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.
Abigail Washburn -
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.
Mal Peet -
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.
Maggie Stiefvater -
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
Nate Parker -
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.
Karin Slaughter
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
Gabrielle Union -
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge -
I love Michelle Williams. I think she's extraordinary. I was such a fan of 'Blue Valentine,' and I heard stories about how Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams worked on that. They lived together for a period of time as rehearsal. From nine in the morning to five at night, living in a space together. The work is really awe-inspiring.
Mahershala Ali -
If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
Warren Spector -
I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.
Kate Thompson -
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!
Daniel Dennett
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Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.
Mary Szybist -
I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
Dorothy Hamill -
If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.
Muhammad Ali -
I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
Heath Ledger -
It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
Albert Einstein -
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
Fyodor Dostoevsky