Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and accelerated their ruin.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.

Andre Aciman

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I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained. I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

Amy Sedaris

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Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?

Stephanie Martson

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When I get time off, my brain is just, that's it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I'm upset or not happy, but I'm just exhausted. I'm just zoned out.

Stephen Amell

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For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.

Jason Aaron

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We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

Josh Silver

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I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

Diane Cilento

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I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.

Colm Toibin

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It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.

Ashwin Sanghi

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Ninon de L'Enclos

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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Mother Teresa

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