As we know, failure is not the result, it is an attitude. We are conditioned, however, to take every deviation from the result we wanted with all our hearts and minds as a failure. It may take years b...
The good Lord gave the director two eyes – one to look into the camera, the other to be alert to everything that is going on around him. Andrzej Wajda, a Polish film director...
There is only one reason for literature to exist, to save those who write it from the tedium of living. J. K. Hyusmans, the French author...
Your characters are mute, so to say; but they make me speak, and that I speak to myself. Tes personnages sont muets, si tu veux; mais ils font que je me parle, et que je m’entretiens avec moi-me...
“I have been told,” said the count, “that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat.” “That is true, sir, and that is what I like best,” said t...
To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the we...
Fresh from reading a summary of Keira Knightley’s interview, I’d like to say that I, too, haven’t been watching TV on a daily basis since 2008. Even though we had TV sets in our Mosc...
I think writing is the ultimate job for a control freak. Alastair Campbell, a British journalist, broadcaster, and author....
You don’t have to see the whole staircase – just take the first step. Martin Luther King, an American activist and civil rights leader. Read an amusing story that took place in Moscow in ...
Frankly speaking, this is the only red caviar dispensing machine that I’ve seen in Moscow. It is easily reached from Baumanskaya metro station. It would be nice if there were, say, a machine dis...