Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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There is no such thing as being too independent.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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I've been bumped, I've had to go up after them, I've had stuff thrown at me, I've been booed. I've had people steal from me and lie to me.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.
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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.
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The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
