Leon Trotsky Quotes
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
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I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funniest thing was when I told her what bonfire night is all about. It's quite dark when you start breaking it down.
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I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.
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Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.
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There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.
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Don’t you get an empty feeling in your soul when you have a blank to-do list?
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
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People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.
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I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.
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Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term questions about their ability to rebound financially and perhaps pursue a more sustainable home purchase at some later point.
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You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
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When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.
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I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.
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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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Until socialism—like Nazism or fascism confronted by the death camps and the slaughter of innocents—is confronted with its lived reality, the greatest atrocities of all recorded human life, we will not live "after socialism."
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I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction...
