Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one’s own powers.
MAXIM GORKYAn artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
More Maxim Gorky Quotes
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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
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In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible — such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?
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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
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