Adam Thirlwell Quotes
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
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I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.
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It is a tomb, most famous of the Mughals, whose empire flourished in India between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, enshrining the remains of the fifth emperor of the dynasty, w:Shah Jahan|Shah Jehan| and those of his second wife Mumtaz Mahal. She died before him and construction of the complex began immediately.
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Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time.
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Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or voting or the kind of strategizing that's done. Anything like that came from politics well before it came from reality television.
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People have to recognize that it’s going to take some time for trust to be built not only between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the White House, between the House and the Senate. You know, we’ve had a dysfunctional political system for a while now.
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Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.
