Anthony Russo Quotes
In general, just as a framing, we always thought about 'Winter Soldier' very specifically as a political thriller.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.
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Don't get me wrong – I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
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No one wants to play music in a basement by themselves ... So when someone says, ‘This is my song,’ ... that feels so good.
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Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.
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In general, just as a framing, we always thought about 'Winter Soldier' very specifically as a political thriller.
