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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: russian
Birth: November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881

Topics

Work Women Men Lose Mad Go

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.

Learning Dance New York Me Baby

I think what AC/DC does best is play live. That's when everything comes together. Even after you make a studio album, when you go out and play live, that's when you learn what being in a band is all about.

Live Best Together Think Learn You

Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.

Unique Late Find Top Seventies Very

You can filter certain stuff - it depends what artist you are - but you're never going to be true to yourself if you're worried about what other people think.

Yourself People Think You Artist

Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.

Time Drive You Play Done Dead

I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.

Teacher Great Me Treat Wine Loved

Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.

Me You Pen Body Stick Different

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Funny One Thing About Thing Neat

I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.

Life Hope Think Will About Readers

My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.

Christine Ebersole

Mother Great Blessing Kiss Me Game

If I can't play, there's no reason to go. To watch the game without me in it, is just no point doing that.

Me Game Doing Play Go Reason

At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.

Time Beginning Seasons Career Acting

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