Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.
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I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.
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I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.
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All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
