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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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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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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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
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As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
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Never say "NO" to yourself, just try. You will never know what could happen.
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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.
