Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes
Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.
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If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
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Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.
