Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.
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I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
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Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.
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(Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.
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He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him; he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it at demand.
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'In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.'
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In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
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I've always been into looking different.
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There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
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And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
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My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.
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The core of my writing is not art but truth.
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You need to find a way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.
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Every epoch dreams its successor.
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The masses are brainwashed to the point that they believe if an American grocery store or restaurant offers a particular food, it must be good and safe.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.
