Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia Quotes
Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
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Now I have realized what the lie is. If I became a tsar, no one would ever dare to tell me a lie. I would have gotten the country under control.
