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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In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.
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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.
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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.
