Anatoly Rybakov Quotes
The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.
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It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.
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Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.
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50 years old is like springtime to me.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.
