Magnus Carlsen Quotes
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
