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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Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.
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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
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I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.
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When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.
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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.
