Alexander Kotov Quotes
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
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What is the basic principle of democracy? In the end, it is loyalty to the nation. We Central Europeans know from historical experience that sooner or later, we will lose our freedom if we do not represent the interests of our citizens.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
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Sometimes they seem like living shapes, - The people of the sky, - Guests in white raiment coming down From heaven, which is close by; I call them by familiar names, As one by one draws nigh.
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The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
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The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
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There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.
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We are the hero of our own story.
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I'd love to design a school.
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Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
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Time trouble is blunder time.
