Bohumil Hrabal Quotes
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I'm trying my best.
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
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In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
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You cannot schedule death.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
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I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
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The most challenging work is producing. The physical act of getting a production up and running is extremely taxing, and you never have any guarantee that your years of work on any given project will ever bear fruit.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things and learn about art history and learn about people that came before me.
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When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.
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I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
