Luke Harding Quotes
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
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We must never bend too much.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
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I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
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I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
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And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.
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By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
