Dmitry Medvedev Quotes
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Resignation is a daily suicide.
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I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.
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I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
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I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.
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Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.
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Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
