Anton Chekhov Quotes

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.

Anton Chekhov

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• People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Find
  • Seek
  • U.S.

• I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Always
  • Young

• Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Goal

• Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Learning

• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • You
  • Back

• I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is not an isolated one. His administration has been making pro-gay noises for some time; his demographic in the upcoming election is young and educated, precisely the group that favours equality for the LGBT community.

  

  Edmund White
  • Time
  • May
  • Community

• What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Men
  • Future
  • Man

• I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Know
  • Travel
  • Author

• I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Done
  • High
  • Kind

• When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Working
  • Sense
  • Writers

• Nobody listened. Nobody took any notice of Mrs Wilkins. She was the kind of person who is not noticed at parties. Her clothes, infested by thrift, made her practically invisible, her face was non-arresting, her conversation was reluctant, she was shy. And if one’s clothes and face and conversation are all negligible, though Mrs Wilkins – who recognised her disabilities – what, at parties, is there left of one?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Conversation
  • Notice
  • Listened

• I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.

  

  John Leguizamo
  • Great
  • Teacher

• Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Father
  • Moments
  • Dark

• I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Balance

• I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.

  

  Anton Chekhov