Tatyana Tolstaya Quotes

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

Tatyana Tolstaya

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifePerspectivePoliticsPurpose

Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled.

Jim Lee

GenerationArtistIndiaCreateInk

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

Robert Jeffress

SleepMeNightMediaLoseNothing

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care.

Steven Burd

BusinessHealthCareReinventOwn

Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as 'pioneers', who shouted that the test-tube claim was a fake! They did not matter.

Robert Edwards

BeginningCollegeEndFakeRoyal

We had a good cast and we loved each other.

Russell Johnson

GoodLovedCastOtherEachHad

I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.

Jonathan Dimbleby

LoveMediaYouPart

There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.

Dick Van Dyke

MoreAnymoreWalt

When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.

Debbie Ford

LifeLoveGreatServiceChoicesYou

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

Chris Evans

LifeHappinessBusinessPeacePeople

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

Christina Ricci

LoveDoingYearYouActorChosen

I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.

Claire Messud

MomentSchoolHigh SchoolYearSay

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

William Shakespeare

GodMeWorldSeemWearyHow

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