Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
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Knowledge is the life of the mind.
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.
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Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?
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'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.
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The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.
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I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.
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I never use a computer.
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Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.
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It got worse still as time went on because people did not sympathize with you any more. They couldn't do enough for you at first, and that helped, and then they got bored with your troubles. But your troubles went on just the same and you had to bear them alone.
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Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.
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Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.
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Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.
