Viswanathan Anand Quotes
Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
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I'm continuously playing this game of what's real and what's not real, and having to balance and judge and realize that there are things that carry real weight in the world and actually have power in them. And there are things that are just pointless, and you don't have to pay attention to those things.
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The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.
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It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking.
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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
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Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.
