Mathias Rust Quotes
My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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You were born as the one you are.
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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.
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Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.
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One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.
