Viktor Korchnoi Quotes
The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
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The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.
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The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.
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No one in life can ever match fiction
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What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
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The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
