Ivan Turgenev Quotes
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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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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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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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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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
