Emir Kusturica Quotes
My relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is very clear: respect. We met a couple of times; once I received a medal from him. I respect hugely how he brought Russia back from its knees.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I am not honest.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'
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Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
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The mistakes you make and lessons you learn at a young age are what gets you to an Olympic level.
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Thankfully, I have a very full life. I'm married with kids, so I have a lot of things to focus on, other projects either in post-production or pre-production, so you just do the best you can.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
My relationship with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is very clear: respect. We met a couple of times; once I received a medal from him. I respect hugely how he brought Russia back from its knees.
