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 tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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They would probably search for him all over the zoo—the last place he’d been seen. He wondered if any evidence would implicate the hippo.
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Whenever did love have anything to do with deserving?
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
