Anton Chekhov Quotes

All Russia is our orchard.

Anton Chekhov

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• It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Fall
  • End

• What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Done
  • Perfect

• When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Weird

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• I want my outfit to match my mood.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Want
  • Mood
  • Outfit

• My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Time
  • Being
  • Take

• My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Fun
  • House
  • Space

• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Lose
  • Birthday

• I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subculture' are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Think
  • Thought
  • Internet

• Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • History
  • Greatest
  • Medicine

• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • World
  • Faith
  • Patience

• I just like doing my job.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Job
  • Like
  • Doing

• It is less important, I believe, where you start. It is more important how and what you learn. If the quality of the learning is high, the development gradient is steep, and, given time, you can find yourself in a previously unattainable place.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Important

• I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Safety

• We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Political

• To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.

  

  Ulric Neisser
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Deal

• Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Mind
  • War
  • Earth

• Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Family
  • Death

• All Russia is our orchard.

  

  Anton Chekhov