Milan Kundera Quotes

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Milan Kundera

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Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

Jim Hunt

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It's something I'd find rather distracting in a historical piece, looking at characters that have obviously just gotten off their Ab Blaster. You see a piece set in the 1300s or the 1800s, and you've got characters who have perfect abs and are incredibly well-groomed, not a hair out of place, and it just doesn't make sense.

Tom Weston-Jones

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Even to be flown out to New York was mind boggling for me, and signing with Columbia was great because they really understood my vision. Of all the labels that I met, they were the ones that really seemed to understand that I was really about the music, the writing, and the lyrics, so it was really fulfilling to sign with them.

Ruth B

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I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

Michelle Branch

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Coming up in the School of Aaron Sorkin Delivery of Fast-Paced Dialogue and Hyper-Articulateness prepared me well for Shondaland, where there are many of the same factors at play.

Joshua Malina

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I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

Don Baylor

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When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.

Columbus Short

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Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

Colin Mochrie

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I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.

Bryant Gumbel

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People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.

Rick Wakeman

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I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

Nicolas Berggruen

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I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

Janet Mock

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