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Keith Gessen Quotes

I've travelled to some of the places where Russian language and Russian culture were made part of the fabric of life long before Lenin arrived at Finland Station - and where Russian is now being rolled back, post-1991.

Keith Gessen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Culture Language Long Back Now

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

John Cameron Mitchell

Family Freedom Money Cool Growing Up

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

John Oates

Music People More Respond Honest

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson

Life Children Memoir Disrespectful

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Trevor Nunn

Yourself Humility People Listening

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

Robert Carlyle

Love Father Home Children Child

When I went to Le Havre, I wasn't physically ready. I was skinny and not strong enough to play in a tough league. They told me to go back to the second team. I was very disappointed, but maybe that helped me to be the way I am now.

Riyad Mahrez

I Am Me Team Tough Strong Enough

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Michael Moriarty

Education Acting Kind Vocation Had

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

Joss Whedon

Fear Working Confrontation

To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.

Jason Calacanis

Good Truth People World Better You

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.

Douglass North

Myself Peace War World Become Over

It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.

Dennis Banks

Change Care Problem Trying Who Like

I collect pictures of adorable puppies on my phone. I have little room for anything else.

Cory Michael Smith

Phone Pictures Room Little Anything