Andrey Zvyagintsev Quotes
Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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Everything I say is true.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
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The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
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I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
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Music is the perfect type of art.
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We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.
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I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.
