Anton Chekhov Quotes
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I know what poverty is.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
