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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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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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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If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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I've always just tried to continue to be a working actor and let the work speak for itself as opposed to promoting myself as someone who needs to be in everybody's living room.
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A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man's face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife/eggs benedict that get ensnared in them.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!
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Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.
