Karel Capek Quotes
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You cannot do only one thing.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.
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Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
