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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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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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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Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
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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 really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.
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Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.
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[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.
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As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
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Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
