Chrystia Freeland Quotes
I lived in Moscow for four years and really, really enjoyed it, and I have a really deep love for the Russian language and Russian culture.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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Photography is an accident.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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In a confederation the South must accept the ultra-nationalist Kim Il Sung cult, whereas the North must acknowledge only the South’s superior prosperity and technology - and one of the main goals of confederation is to eliminate that gap as rapidly as possible. (It will be as much a matter of pulling the South down as the North up.)
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You can't be sensitive, ... and play baseball.
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I travel, a lot, to research the locales for the books. I have professional contacts that I can ask questions of or show them scenes to vet.
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
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My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.
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I lived in Moscow for four years and really, really enjoyed it, and I have a really deep love for the Russian language and Russian culture.
