Ivan Turgenev Quotes
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
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America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
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I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
