Anton Chekhov Quotes
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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I'd like to direct something at the Public.
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It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
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Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.
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I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
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I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
