Natalia Makarova Quotes
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.
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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
