Boris Pasternak Quotes
If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.
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I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
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My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
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I love women.
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I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.
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I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
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Sometimes I wake up and think I look horrible. And sometimes I see a strong woman.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'
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I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
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If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.
