Vladimir Potanin Quotes

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

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• I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Funny

• I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Right
  • See
  • Throw

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Teaching
  • Profession

• I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Long
  • Just
  • Going

• People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Author
  • Election

• The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Risk
  • Laugh
  • Looking

• Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • School
  • Power
  • Imagination

• I'm not a negative person.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Person
  • Negative

• Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Writing
  • Doing
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• 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Favorite
  • Novels
  • George

• I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Worry

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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  • Why
  • Art

• I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Great
  • Book
  • Better

• Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• We are not exposed to ice much in Florida.

  

  Brittany Bowe

• I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Mountain

• Fans want real songs, they want real experiences, and they want real instruments.

  

  Brian Littrell
  • Real

• I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Career
  • Taken

• I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise to wait until marriage to have sex because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.

  

  Katy Perry
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  • Guy
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• For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

  

  Vladimir Potanin
  • Guy
  • Challenge
  • Enjoy