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Keith Gessen Quotes

Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking cobbler whose relationship with Joseph's mother, Keke Geladze, came to an end when the boy was around six years old.

Keith Gessen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1975

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Father Mother Relationship End Born

I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show.

Jerry Lawler

Think Wrestling Successful Show Been

Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

Andre Geim

Family Good Trust Research Road Run

I'm very political. I'm not political in public; I'm political at home.

Melania Trump

Home Political Very Public

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

John Kruk

Conference Going Press Manage Many

The tension in pro ball comes from the realization that any game could be your last, that an injury could end your career. And in TV, you never know if or when your series will be canceled.

John Matuszak

Game End You Career Know Never

You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don't really need to.

Steven Burd

People You Go Know Need Emergency

You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.

Sigrid Nunez

You Down Write Hold Because Get

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

Mohsin Hamid

Man Jealousy People World Small Way

I often use nameless places in my work as a way of allowing the readers to create more of the novel and to make it potentially about their experiences, what they know, a city that they have perhaps seen on television.

Mohsin Hamid

Work City Television Create Know

We're from New York, so we have a decent following.

Josh Silver

New York New Decent Following York

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

Christina Ricci

Tax Want Ring Break Just Engaged

For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.

Brittany Howard

Time Mountains Sun Scenery Country