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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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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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 care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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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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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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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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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
