Boris Pasternak Quotes
Like a beast in a pen, I’m cut off From my friends, freedom, the Sun. But the hunters are gaining ground; I’ve nowhere else to run.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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I try to do my best.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
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Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.
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Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Like a beast in a pen, I’m cut off From my friends, freedom, the Sun. But the hunters are gaining ground; I’ve nowhere else to run.
