Leo Tolstoy Quotes
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the 'bowl of stew' of bodily satisfactions.
Quotes to Explore
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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Never regret what you don't write.
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I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
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I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
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'Where the hell is Ronan?' Gansey asked, echoing the words that thousands of humans had uttered since mankind developed speech.
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When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
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The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.
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New Orleans in an amazing town.
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I am a small-town girl.
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And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.
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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
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I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.
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Your place in history depends on what you do for others, not what others do for you.
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People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.
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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the 'bowl of stew' of bodily satisfactions.
