I got so strong I felt like a giant, ... When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.
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Related So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level ... DEYTH BANGER Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER I did theater summer camps when I was a kid, and I enjoyed them, but they never felt quite right. Bu... AIDY BRYANT Some stuff which I do aren't some kind a cheats or this kind a of stuff it's about thinking and it's... DEYTH BANGER It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I got a chance to work with them during two-a-days, so they knew what I was like. Joe Cope came to m... BLAKE FIELD We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer. GARY PLAYER I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived. GARY PLAYER You must work very hard to become a natural golfer. GARY PLAYER Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't th... GARY PLAYER If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want... GARY PLAYER We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. GARY PLAYER The harder you work, the luckier you get. GARY PLAYER The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, "There's a star." The first time I saw Jack Nicklau... GARY PLAYER Each shot is important. GARY PLAYER It's sad not having Arnie ( Palmer ) and Jack ( Nicklaus ) here. We've had so many good times but ev... GARY PLAYER I remember. That's the year I won at Augusta. That's the year I won three tournaments going into Aug... GARY PLAYER I was so brainwashed about how abnormal this was going to be with all the changes. It's not that abn... GARY PLAYER [In his 1993 autobiography] To Be the Best, ... What I have learned about myself is that I am an ani... GARY PLAYER I'm using exactly the same clubs, other than No. 4. I was brainwashed into believing it would be abn... GARY PLAYER The more I practice, the luckier I get. GARY PLAYER A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks. GARY PLAYER I try to work with God as a partner. GARY PLAYER If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early te... GARY PLAYER Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slight... GARY PLAYER A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment WILLIS PLAYER A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. WILLIS PLAYER I wasn't going to let a quarterback bring me down. JAMES ANDERSON (FOOTBALL PLAYER) Coach [Bud] Foster had prepared us to look for the option, so we were prepared. I was fortunate to b... JAMES ANDERSON (FOOTBALL PLAYER) I had to slow the game down and pick my spots when to be aggressive. That's one of the biggest ways ... BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I've shown there's not going to be a hole in the outfield - although (Thursday) I proved otherwise o... BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I was still disappointed in myself I didn't get the bunt down because I feel I can do it, but I gues... BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I hate it. I hate losing. I always have, always will. BEN JOHNSON (FOOTBALL PLAYER) I need to be aggressive, to let it go. BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) We had two men on, and I couldn't get a bunt down. BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) He goes out and plays hard every day, ... Lately, he's been hitting gaps, a lot of triples and doubl... BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I feel like I've been a little too timid lately. I have to let it all hang out. BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I faced him quite a few times and fared pretty well. BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I went from a state of disappointment, in not getting the bunt down, to disbelief in a matter of two... BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) At 2-2 in the count, I was trying to shorten up my swing. BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I was still disappointed in myself that I didn't get the bunt down because I know I can, ... but I g... BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I think a target for 280-290 will put us in a relatively safe position. JAMES ANDERSON (CRICKET PLAYER) It's good that we have a 150-plus advantage. We would work on it and make it into a bigger total. We... JAMES ANDERSON (CRICKET PLAYER) It was good for us to take the 100 plus lead and we will wait till tea on fourth day to see how thin... JAMES ANDERSON (CRICKET PLAYER) I had a clear path to the lane. I was able to get some steps to gather myself. My eyes just lit up. JAMES ANDERSON (CRICKET PLAYER) I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into fo... JAMES ANDERSON (CRICKET PLAYER) I'm crap at talking to girls. I really need them to come and chat to me, but I'm learning a lot from... JAMES ANDERSON (CRICKET PLAYER) Timing is everything. Hopefully, we'll keep that momentum rolling into the playoffs. BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) He showed me the ropes. A lot of the struggles I had in the minors, he's had as a ballplayer. We cli... BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) I still feel like I have to make the team. Here, nothing is given to me. I have to earn it. That's a... BEN JOHNSON (BASEBALL PLAYER) One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy... GARY VAYNERCHUK I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression. GARY VAYNERCHUK When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef... GARY JENNINGS I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two majo... GARY JOHNSON For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi... GARY FRANK Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and und... GARY COHN If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower. GARY JOHNSON You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars. GARY ALLAN Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's... GARY GYGAX Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of lig... GARY ZUKAV When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to le... GARY ZUKAV The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to conn... GARY ZUKAV A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to ... GARY ZUKAV The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a p... GARY ZUKAV There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The o... GARY ZUKAV We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w... GARY ZUKAV The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters... GARY ZUKAV The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness a... GARY ZUKAV We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make t... GARY ZUKAV The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for t... GARY WEISS Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techni... GARY BAUER I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole. GARY JOHNSON Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ... GARY BAUER People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger ab... GARY LINEKER I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an ... GARY WRIGHT By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't thi... GARY WRIGHT I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ... GARY WRIGHT Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies. GARY WRIGHT I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performance... GARY WRIGHT I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best. GARY WRIGHT I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands. GARY WRIGHT I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them... GARY WRIGHT In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India. GARY WRIGHT My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy. GARY WRIGHT The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ... GARY WRIGHT The more far-out artists, the better. GARY WRIGHT We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such. GARY WRIGHT I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying ... GARY WRIGHT Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up... GARY WRIGHT No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It'... GARY WRIGHT Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. GARY WRIGHT Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessa... GARY WOLF Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion. GARY WOLF Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist f... GARY WOLF The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and u... GARY WOLF As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it... GARY WOLF The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where fami... GARY WOLF Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl th... GARY WOLF Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macin... GARY WOLF Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic... GARY WOLF Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also m... GARY WOLF Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field ... GARY WOLF Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to ... GARY WOLF The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it... GARY WOLF For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware ... GARY WOLF If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends ... GARY WOLF During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,... GARY WOLF Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and... GARY WEISS Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies a... GARY WEISS Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journ... GARY WEISS At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at t... GARY WEISS When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harri... GARY WEISS George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger... GARY WEISS India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout i... GARY WEISS People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are ent... GARY WEISS With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they ... GARY WEISS Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regula... GARY WEISS Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased strivin... GARY WEISS I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer,... GARY WEISS Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively prea... GARY WEISS The flip side of humiliation is pride. GARY WEISS Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiqu... GARY WEISS Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one. GARY WEISS In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as w... GARY WEISS Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling. GARY WEISS One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intell... GARY WEISS You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when t... GARY WEBB After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S.... GARY WEBB Beaujolais is so underrated. GARY VAYNERCHUK Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the s... GARY VAYNERCHUK Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is ... GARY VAYNERCHUK The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this... GARY VAYNERCHUK Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement... GARY VAYNERCHUK The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is g... GARY VAYNERCHUK It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love t... GARY VAYNERCHUK I love people, and the hustle. GARY VAYNERCHUK When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. M... GARY VAYNERCHUK I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers eve... GARY VAYNERCHUK Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need t... GARY VAYNERCHUK The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culi... GARY VAYNERCHUK My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13. GARY VALENTINE The key in controlling my asthma is pretty simple: I have a good professional diagnosis, and I follo... GARY VALENTINE Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if... GARY VALENTINE I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city. GARY SPEED I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it. GARY SPEED Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other. GARY SPEED If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have reti... GARY SPEED A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have be... GARY SPEED If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a g... GARY SPEED You've got to believe you can get a result from the game. GARY SPEED I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the mo... GARY SPEED Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's diff... GARY SPEED Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games.... GARY SPEED I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. GARY SINISE I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director. GARY SINISE I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills. GARY SINISE But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all. GARY SINISE If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last t... GARY SINISE I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy. GARY SINISE I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficul... GARY SINISE The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that ma... GARY SINISE I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm ... GARY SINISE I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans. GARY SINISE I study to learn, to be an educated person. GARY SINISE You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie... GARY SINISE I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their ga... GARY SINISE I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I kn... GARY SINISE My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go... GARY SINISE You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on t... GARY SINISE The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to ... GARY SINISE Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine run... GARY SINISE Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them. GARY SINISE I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America. GARY SHTEYNGART In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, bu... GARY SHTEYNGART I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do ... GARY SHTEYNGART I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re... GARY SHTEYNGART I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. ... GARY SHTEYNGART American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it. GARY SHTEYNGART Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so importa... GARY SHTEYNGART I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both t... GARY SHTEYNGART If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. GARY SHTEYNGART That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my mult... GARY SHTEYNGART I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pret... GARY SHTEYNGART A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it... GARY SHTEYNGART I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them se... GARY SHTEYNGART In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, ... GARY SHTEYNGART I don't have many possessions, apart from my books. GARY SHTEYNGART I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We'... GARY SHTEYNGART I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli... GARY SHTEYNGART Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person th... GARY SHTEYNGART I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creati... GARY SHTEYNGART Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph... GARY SHTEYNGART The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a n... GARY SHTEYNGART When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've g... GARY SHTEYNGART Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissiv... GARY SHTEYNGART I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot. GARY SHTEYNGART In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it. GARY SHERMAN Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc... GARY SHERMAN I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. T... GARY SHERMAN You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more h... GARY SHERMAN I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to ... GARY SHERMAN The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political ... GARY SHERMAN The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more t... GARY SHERMAN Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a stu... GARY SHERMAN One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film... GARY SHERMAN I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent c... GARY SHERMAN