Vasily Grossman Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I love improvising.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
