Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to an amalgam of reality and fantasy.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
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My dad dated a lot of supermodels.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
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The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?
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I'm not doing 'Once' to prove that I'm worldly or cultured. I just love the role.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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In the first of these senses, neither Christ nor the Christian is supposed to be the world’s servant. Jesus is obedient, not to the world but to the Father. He is the servant of God, not of men, and we too are called to be servants of God.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to an amalgam of reality and fantasy.
