Andrei Platonov Quotes
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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Remember, life itself is a mission. While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps to re-focus on the Word and the Will of God. While we are on the go, I mean, while we are on the mission, we need to sometimes stop at intervals to assess our progress and prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
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People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.
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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.
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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.
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Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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..., and the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.
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As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.
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I lived and languished.
