John Steinbeck Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
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To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
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Stay in your heart.
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Your life is the same wherever you go.
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It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
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The thing about India is that even if the economic backgrounds are different, the cultural background is the same. Somebody who is working as a tailor will also tie a black thread around his kid's wrist; so will somebody in Bollywood. That's the fun of being Indian.
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In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
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As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
