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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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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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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Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
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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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To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.
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I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.
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I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.
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At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry's tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
