Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
Adam DeVine -
Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
Jack Canfield -
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison -
I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
Vic Tayback -
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
Sabrina Bryan -
'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
Lapo Elkann -
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable -
I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
Wen Ho Lee -
After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
Valerie Bertinelli -
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Carl Hiaasen
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
Dan Fogelberg -
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde -
Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
Park Chan-wook -
The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
Camila Alves -
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
Edmund White -
Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
Haile Selassie
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Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.
John Lanchester -
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.
Yasumasa Morimura -
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Philip Zimbardo -
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
T. S. Eliot -
We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?
David Carr -
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
Yevgeny Zamyatin