Marat Safin Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
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In 1666, following an unfortunate workplace accident, the city of London burnt down.
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I just want to make everyone happy.
