Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
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I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.
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My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.'
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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
