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My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.
All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.
As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.
I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.
I have won Russia at least 16 world championships. I have fought for my country.
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
Just make the right estimation of your own strengths and weaknesses, and also that of your opponent.
Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country.
Russia is a state within a state. To understand the population of Russia, you need to know the areas of the country; you need an understanding of the people and their interests.
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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25 August, 1934
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