Anton Chekhov Quotes
A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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It is an award for American excellence that excludes and sometimes gracefully includes some other countries. It is an institution or brand created by Hollywood to promote itself, an award decided by 15 people. How nice it would have been if Satyajit Ray, instead of all his awards, got a few more audiences?
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Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
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In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish person in the Soviet Union was not easy. Not that I remember any of that - I was barely old enough to chew back then - but for my parents, both Uzbekistan-born Jews, life was a struggle.
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
