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There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.
Joseph Brodsky
Poet
Nothing
Analytical
Synthetic
About
Russian
Write
Instance
Device
Than
English
Apply
Phenomenon
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Joseph Conrad
You
Soul
Russian
Divine
Forget
Resignation
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Joseph de Maistre
Man
Beneath
Would
Russian
Could
Passionately
Explode
Fortress
Who
Desire
Desires
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.
Joshua Cohen
Google
Think
Russian
Could
German
Survive
American
Literature
American Literature
When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.
Kate Beckinsale
Myself
Treat
First
Important
Young
Apprentice
Types
Kind
Russian
Fact
Could
Studied
Like
French
Felt
Been
Very
Quite
Different
Working
Acting
Many
Different Types
Aware
Things
Started
University
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
Kate Beckinsale
Me
You
Woman
Speak
Out
See
Russian
Only
Gives
Dropped
Does
Oxford
Hollywood
Who
Now
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
Kate Beckinsale
Great
Me
Pressure
Reading
Took
Books
States
Would
Would-Be
Admit
Russian
Could
Through
Studied
Written
Spoiled
Major
French
Read
Were
Getting
Oxford
Double
Languages
Many
Novels
Originally
United
United States
University
I tend to latch on to things pretty obsessively for awhile. I listened to Russian pop music exclusively for almost five years. It's weird.
Katya Zamolodchikova
Music
Pretty
Russian
Tend
Almost
Weird
Years
Five
Listened
Pop
Pop Music
Things
Awhile
Being a Russian oligarch these days isn't easy. The best and brightest of them are in exile or in jail; others, after feasting on leverage during the commodities boom, now have tummies full of debt.
Keith Gessen
Best
Others
Boom
Easy
Russian
Days
Exile
Debt
Commodities
Jail
Being
After
Them
Full
Now
Brightest
Leverage
My parents were attached to Russian culture by a thousand ineradicable ties. But they did not cut me off from American society, nor could they have. I assimilated wholeheartedly, found my parents in many ways embarrassing, and allowed my Russian to decline through neglect.
Keith Gessen
Me
Culture
Parents
Society
Neglect
Ways
Embarrassing
Thousand
Russian
Attached
Could
Through
Allowed
Ties
Were
Nor
Off
American
Did
Decline
Cut
American Society
Many
Wholeheartedly
Found
Assimilated
My parents and my brother and I left the Soviet Union in 1981. I was six, and Dima was sixteen, and that made all the difference. I became an American, whereas Dima remained essentially Russian.
Keith Gessen
Made
Parents
All The Difference
Brother
Russian
Remained
Became
Left
American
Soviet
Soviet Union
Six
Essentially
Sixteen
Difference
Whereas
Union
Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking cobbler whose relationship with Joseph's mother, Keke Geladze, came to an end when the boy was around six years old.
Keith Gessen
Relationship
Mother
Old
Father
Born
Russian
Joseph
Empire
Periphery
Around
Boy
Came
His
Years
Georgia
End
Six
Stalin
Whose
People who can't speak Russian will be less susceptible to Russian propaganda. But they will also be less susceptible to the poetry of Joseph Brodsky.
Keith Gessen
People
Speak
Will
Propaganda
Russian
Poetry
Joseph
Also
Susceptible
Less
Who
All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it's particularly sharp.
Keith Gessen
Moral
Russian
Sharp
Particularly
Literature
Strain
The Russian economy is a one-trick pony. They're totally focused on natural gas and oil.
Kelly Ayotte
Natural
Focused
Totally
Russian
Economy
Oil
Natural Gas
Pony
Gas
People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it.
Kersti Kaljulaid
You
People
World
Long
Nothing
Everywhere
About
Russian
Having
Wrong
Transparent
Connections
One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books.
Kevin Barry
Work
Art
Time
You
Money
First
Few
Drama
Our
Books
Those
Our Time
Television
One Of The Things
Some
Russian
Excited
Like
Most
Greatest
Narrative
Been
Lot
Just
Episodes
Pages
Novel
Series
Each
Things
Need
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
Kevin J. Anderson
War
Time
History
Big
Cold
Cold War
Minor
Russian
Had
Going
Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.
Klaus Fuchs
Time
Me
Whatever
Gave
Unknown
Would
Russian
Except
Had
Contact
Knew
Since
Were
Continuous
Hand
Authorities
Information
Them
Persons
Who
At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.
Klaus Fuchs
Death
Time
Confidence
Fight
Other
Complete
Russia
Russian
Deliberately
Allies
Had
Allowed
Policy
Western
Germany
Each
Believed
In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.
Klaus Fuchs
War
Post
Post-War
About
Russian
Period
Policy
Began
Again
Doubts
I'm like the Russian Tyra Banks.
Ksenia Sobchak
Russian
Like
Banks
All Russian people know who I am. So I use this to the good because, you know, it's really hard to shut my mouth off because... I'm too bright, and I'm too many years visible to everyone.
Ksenia Sobchak
Good
You
People
Mouth
Too
Everyone
Visible
Russian
Russian People
Know
Because
Am
Years
Off
Really
Use
Hard
Who
Many
Bright
Shut
It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.
Ksenia Solo
Funny
Time
Speak
Nice
Definitely
Russian
Part
Takes
Because
Always
Brain
Off
Any
Where
Different
Acting
Used
English
Fun
Moments
Pull
I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.
Ksenia Solo
Fluent
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Born
Russian
Europe
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
Lajos Kossuth
Evil
Spirit
Russian
Absolutism
Principle
Europe
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