Ivan Turgenev Quotes
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.Ivan Turgenev
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
Taron Egerton -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
Idina Menzel -
Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
Quincy Jones -
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.
Fernando Botero -
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.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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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.
Pankaj Mishra -
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.
F. Sionil Jose -
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.
W. H. Davies -
A lot of people don't like me.
Paris Jackson -
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.
Vincent Canby -
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.
Cameron Winklevoss
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz -
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle -
Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
Beau Bridges -
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Jack Valenti -
Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
Oren Peli -
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz
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I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.
Ezra Furman -
We plucked down all His altars, left not oneSave where, perchance (and ah, the joy was fleet),We laid our garlands in the sunAt the white Sea-born's feet.
Alfred Noyes -
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes -
My grandfather was a police officer. He taught Dad about lie detectors and police interrogation methods, so Dad got this old World War II lie detector and used it on us regularly. He was obsessed with the truth.
Brian Herbert -
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
Ivan Turgenev