Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.
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You know, you have Scorsese who worked with De Niro and - or DiCaprio. You have William Wyler who worked with Bette Davis. You have George Cukor who worked with Katharine Hepburn. I just - people get to be friends and then there's a - that's a - you can take risks together and each time out you take a different risk.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
