Anton Chekhov Quotes
It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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'Shall I look too?' said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.
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States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
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I think this..."perfectionist gene" that too many young women have holds them back, and instead they should be really aiming for "good enough." You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that. They're just trying to figure out what's the opening and how they can seize it. They're not thinking about, Oh my gosh, I'm not perfect, my hair's not perfect today, I wore the wrong shoes. No.
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).
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New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.
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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
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It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
