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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The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.
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Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I would never accuse the Irish people of being in any way stupid.
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Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
