Margarita Simonyan Quotes
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.
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I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
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Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.
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We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.
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After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
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All of our anchors begin their shows with 'Hello from Moscow.'