Nikolai Gogol Quotes
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I don't eat red meat.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.
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Boxing is one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.
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I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'
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People can help solve these problems, ... This is the power of our user base, rather than just using brute force and algorithmic search, although this is still important.
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They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
