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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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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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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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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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.
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The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.
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Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
