Anton Chekhov Quotes
It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Anton Chekhov
Quotes to Explore
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
Natasha Trethewey
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
Hannah Mills
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
Nancy Johnson
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
Irwin Shaw
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
Irwin Thomas
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
Valerie Harper
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Both in verse and in prose Karl Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody’s hair stand on end; he is always crying: 'But he hasn’t any clothes on!' about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.
Randall Jarrell
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There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.
Yehudi Menuhin
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Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.
Rahul Gandhi
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We learn only to ask more questions.
Larry Niven
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
Edward Albee
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I'm a good dad. I'm an evolved dad. You know, you see a lot of guys when they're in training camp, they go off, do their own thing. But I'm in the midst of it. Swim lessons? I'm there. Changing diapers, teething, doctor's appointments, I'm there 24/7.
Demetrious Johnson
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The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.
Wolfgang Pauli
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Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.
Lee Trevino
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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
James McBride
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Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.
Johnny Marr
Pretenders
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
Alicia Keys
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It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Anton Chekhov
