Yaroslav Trofimov Quotes
The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our country into heaven, we don't want it from you. Just leave us."
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.
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I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
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When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?
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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our country into heaven, we don't want it from you. Just leave us."
