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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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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My grandparents and my mom came from Cuba back in the '60s because they were fleeing from communism and Castro. I wouldn't be here otherwise.
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I love musicians. I think artists are the most amazing people because they're constantly creating beauty for the world. With all the crazy stuff going on in the world, then there's artists reminding us of our humanity and reminding us of our heart and soul and what really matters.
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Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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I've had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I'm game. I'm game for that kind of thing. I'm certainly not too vain in that respect. If it's a great role, I'm willing to do whatever it is that it takes.
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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.
