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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#middle #night #serious #solve #try

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#board #chess #climate #could #country

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. ↗

— Tony Blair

#any #conducted #easy #least #life

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence. ↗

— Joan Didion

#audience #confidence #gain #getting #gradually

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted. ↗

— Robert Blake

#family #gave #her #i #information

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#been #broadway #casting #concerned #died

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bad #comic #end #every #get

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#before #ever #foundation #intensively #matter

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #before #between #checkmate #chess

The long, forensic interview really matters. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#interview #long #matters #really