Margarita Simonyan Quotes
It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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There was a period in my life when I was eating ramen non-stop. These days, less so. Once you have a kid, you end up eating a lot of foods with broccoli in them.
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It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.
