Vasily Grossman Quotes
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.
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The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.
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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
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I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.
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The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.
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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
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Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.
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I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
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If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh!
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
