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Keith Gessen Quotes

I remember reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' in my grandmother's Moscow apartment and feeling this call to be a better person.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Better Person Reading Better Remember

I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

Responsibility Play Said Want Actor

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.

Me Advice Help I Can Young Own

I just have this sense of entitlement that I should be able to feel comfortable at all times, like I could go to bed at any moment in what I'm wearing.

Moment Feel Bed Go Comfortable Just

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Sword Spirit Conquered Ever While

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

Time Thought Better Getting Better

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

Football Play Adapt Important Others

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.

Austan Goolsbee

Small Insurance Important Without

I hate the term 'Bollywood,' because we're not a 'me too' of Hollywood. The Indian film industry is prolific.

Priyanka Chopra

Hate Me Hollywood Industry Film Too

I'm not a French singer.

I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.

Sebastian Junger

Work Think Try Pretty Neutral Very

Recording should be fun.

Rickey Medlocke

Fun Recording Should

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Marina Abramovic

Mind Society Universe Questions Ask

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