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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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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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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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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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.
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Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
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The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.
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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.
