Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I know what poverty is.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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I not only get recognized - I get recognized from behind.
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I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.