Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
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I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.
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Just because somebody is blood-related doesn't make them family.
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I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think of was something somehow must make sense to us. Our Town kept coming into my mind.
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It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.
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No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
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The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
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I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.
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I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.
