Magnus Carlsen Quotes
If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.
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[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
