Boris Spassky Quotes

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.

Boris Spassky

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• The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Money
  • Man
  • Free

• One cannot plan for the unexpected.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Plan
  • Cannot
  • Unexpected

• When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • American
  • Education
  • College

• When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Write
  • Worth

• In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Movies

• Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Period
  • Sun

• Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Party
  • Mask

• I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Writer
  • Actress

• I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside' as well.

  

  Barry Sloane
  • Good
  • Character
  • Blessed

• If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Air
  • Fight
  • Build

• A nation never falls but by suicide.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Suicide

• I am moved by fancies that are curledAround these images, and cling:The notion of some infinitely gentleInfinitely suffering thing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Suffering

• I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • Die

• I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

  

  Alan Moore

• The world has so much suffering in it already-choosing to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the suffering on a daily basis.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Daily

• My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Music
  • Art
  • Career

• When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Peace
  • Lake

• Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

  

  Pierce Brosnan

• I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Why

• The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Good
  • Book

• I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.

  

  Boris Spassky