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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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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I watched my idol and fellow Dutchman Tiesto. He was the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympic event - the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. At eight years old, all I can remember thinking was, 'I want to be a DJ.'
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A lot of people don't like child actors.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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At high levels, all of us—normal weight and overweight alike—underestimate calorie levels with mathematical predictability.
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Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says 'Come eat me!' I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that's crazy.
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In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.
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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.
