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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The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
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Willie and Joe are my creatures. Or am I their creature? They are not social reformers. They're much more reactive. They're not social scientists and I'm not a social scientist. We're moral people who do not belong to the moral majority. One of my principles is, Thou shall not bully. The only answer is to muscle the bully. I'm very combative that way.
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Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!
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That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
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I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out.
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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.
