Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Culture follows power.
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The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.
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The world is changing very profoundly.
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My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'
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… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…
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Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.
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I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.
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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
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I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
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Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues.
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Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
