Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
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As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.
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I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
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The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
