Gary Shteyngart Quotes
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
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I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously.
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Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
