"I don't find English restrictive, but it brings a level of discipline to my writing that I wouldn't have in Bulgarian. My control of English, however you define it, my ability to work in English, is more limited than in Bulgarian. That means out of necessity I have to develop a style that goes for clarity of expression which I may not have done otherwise."

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Miroslav Penkov

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!”
“The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.”

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“I hated him for as long as I could. But then I realized that loving him...that was a part of me, and one of the best parts. It didn't matter that he couldn't love me, that had nothing to do with it. But if I couldn't forgive him, then I could not love him, and that part of me was gone. And I found eventually that I wanted it back." ({Lord John, Drums of Autumn}”
“I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.”
“Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.”
“People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.”
“I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.”
“When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.”

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