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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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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I am healthy and happy.
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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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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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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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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. He's a person who I trust absolutely. He's got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy.
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I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.
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As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
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It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.
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The first movie I produced was a movie that Joel Schumacher wrote and directed called 'Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill.'
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I've made a good amount of money. I'm very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I'm ready to maybe go back to school and change careers.
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What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
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'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
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I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.
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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.
