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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I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.
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As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
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I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
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Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
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I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.
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Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
