Tatyana Tolstaya Quotes
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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I'm a real romantic.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
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Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
