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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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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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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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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I put God first and do not allow other things to cloud my vision.
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I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
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About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!
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Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.
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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them.
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The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.
