Vladimir Kramnik Quotes
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
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If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
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It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty.
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I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.
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Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
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By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.
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People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.
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Chess is a matter of daily training.
