Anatoly Rybakov Quotes
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets - Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones - offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.
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These two staples of work life - meetings and managers - are actually the greatest causes of work not getting done at the office. In fact, the further away you are from both meetings and managers, the more work gets done.
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The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
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I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
