Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.
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Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'
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When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
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A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.
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New York was growing so fast that the extraordinary prosperity which attended 'The Times' almost from the outset brought no real injury to any of its important rivals; for years thereafter, they all grew and prospered together.
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When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.
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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
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Oh, God! it is a fearful thingTo see the human soul take wingIn any shape, in any mood.
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What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
