Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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 -
Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
Hannah Mills -
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 -
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
Irwin Shaw -
We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
Valerie Harper -
The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
Felix Adler
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
Jack Reynor -
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.
Wayne Coyne -
I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
Garry Kasparov -
The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
Gary Locke -
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 -
Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.
Rahul Gandhi -
We learn only to ask more questions.
Larry Niven -
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
Edward Albee -
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 -
Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.
Freya Tingley
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'Last Man On Earth' is just one of the most original projects I've ever been involved with.
Mary Steenburgen -
In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
Jake Gyllenhaal -
I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
Clive Cussler -
It's a little payback. He was acting like he had 10 years in the league.
Eddie Guardado -
I buy the CDs of my favorite artists like Journey, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Format.
J. M. Roberts -
It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Anton Chekhov