Viktor Korchnoi Quotes
[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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I don't really go out at all.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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I can paint in jail.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma.
