Vasily Grossman Quotes
Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
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Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.
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When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.
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Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.
