Gary Shteyngart Quotes
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
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The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.
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The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
