Elvira Nabiullina Quotes
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'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.
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And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
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When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
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I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.
