Nikolai Leskov Quotes
Now and again in these parts you come across people so remarkable that, no matter how much time has passed since you met them, it is impossible to recall them without your heart trembling.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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Time, the devourer of all things.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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Hugh Jackman is just the nicest person in the world. I know everybody says that, and it's almost boring to hear, but he is really, really perfect.
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I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.
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I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At the time I started, I was, like, the 10th person in the animation group, and we all had to do everything. That's the way I like it, keeping it fresh.
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I did '24;' it was terrible. I hated every moment of it.
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When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
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Now and again in these parts you come across people so remarkable that, no matter how much time has passed since you met them, it is impossible to recall them without your heart trembling.
