Vasily Grossman Quotes
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.
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I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.
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Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
