Tatyana Tolstaya Quotes

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

Tatyana Tolstaya

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: May 3, 1951

Topics

GoodAttitudeSmartPeopleThink

What we want to see is a long term future for Grangemouth.

Jim Ratcliffe

FutureLongWantSeeLong TermTerm

I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.

Jewel Staite

TrustFunMePressureDesireKnow

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

Joel Osteen

GoodAttitudeCharacterFaithHappy

As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.

John Gurdon

WorkBrandStudentNewTryStarting

Some actors are brilliant in David Mamet, but they would crash and burn in my plays and visa-versa. You either have my music in your body, or you don't.

John Patrick Shanley

MusicYouBodyBurnYour BodyYour

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

John Lee Hancock

AngerThinkAlwaysCynicismThings

A majority of all defectors who voted Labour in 2010 but for a different party in 2015 said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party. For those switching to the Tories, the second biggest reason was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.

Michael Ashcroft

FearGovernmentPushPartyToo Much

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

Stephen Sondheim

WorkPeopleMeOpinionStageSeen

L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.

Shooter Jennings

FamilyLoveGreatCultureMeCool

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

Michael Jordan

FightYouSometimesNeedHeadGet

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

Louise Fletcher

LiveThinkingDoingCameraYouMore

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Lorenz Hart

NeverTellHalfBooksPainters

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