Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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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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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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I'm always sexy. You gotta stay sexy.
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I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
