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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Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.
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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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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.
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I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
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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.
