Anton Chekhov Quotes
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
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Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don't explore until they're in college.
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I grew up in the Bronx.
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I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
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For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
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Sexuality isn't something you create. It is between people, and then it just happens.
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I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
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If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.'
