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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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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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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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.
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It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.
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I started out in the 1940s, singing around the clubs of Cleveland, Ohio, where I grew up. There was a woman in showbusiness, a contortion dancer called Estelle 'Caldonia' Young - she was named after the song Caledonia Caledonia.
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Twenty-fourteen is all about growth musically and new agendas.
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The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.
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I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.
