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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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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I know what poverty is.
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Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.
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My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.
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For most people, tweeting is scary.
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My family really isn't so different from yours.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
