Tatyana Tolstaya Quotes
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
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That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
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The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker.
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We always welcome when somebody says he or she is ready to work with Russia.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
