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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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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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
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How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
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Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
