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Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

Stalin had 15 scenic seaside villas, some of them czarist palaces, on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia. In 2002, I visited and photographed these extraordinarily well-preserved Stalinist time capsules.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 27, 1965

Topics

Sea Time Black Coast Some Palaces

It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.

Jennifer Coolidge

Women Men Man Now Leaving Always

You don't really know when the last time you're going to do something is; the middle can often be a bit blurry. Firsts are very potent.

Jenny Han

Time You Know Going Last Middle

I do think that narrative is very important - I think that we use narrative to organize the world around us, and so it does matter a lot what kinds of narratives we have in our inventories and which ones are reinforced so often and so strongly that we habitually reach for them without thinking.

Ann Leckie

World Think Thinking Reach Important

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

Sloane Crosley

Funny Friend Mind Me Giving Admire

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.

Ron Fournier

Success Health Humility Care Capable

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Mary Baker Eddy

Jealousy Affection Grave

I call 2015 a year of deconstruction. I needed to deconstruct myself, my businesses, and find all of the holes in my empire. I had to find holes and fill them with people who could do it better.

Michelle Phan

Myself People Better Year Find Call

A few brands have asked me to design shorts for them. I'm not sure about that. I don't want to have them as a mass product, and suddenly everybody is walking around in them.

Juergen Teller

Me Design Walking Want Product Sure

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Work Women Think Hell Friends You

I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.

David Stern

World Games Greatest Cup Aware Been

It's a fast learning process if you want to be successful at the highest level.

Christian Pulisic

Learning Process You Fast Want

I think that after divorce, I took my life a little bit more seriously, because you have to face endings in a way that you maybe never - death in one thing, but an ending in your own chapter. It's so clearly placed there for you with divorce.

Alice Eve

Life Death Ending Face Think You