Gary Shteyngart Quotes
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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I like to discover new things.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.
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I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
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The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
