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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Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.
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Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
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It's a long hard struggle from nothing to something if you're starting off with nothing, especially if you're raising a family.
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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.
