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 was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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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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When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.
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I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
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Phones were created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user's needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.
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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.
