Alexei Shirov quotes

Alexei Shirov quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.”
-- Alexei Shirov

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“I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.”
-- Alexei Shirov

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“I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.”
“As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world). The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.”
“If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?”
“[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way...”
“The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.”
“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”
“Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.”
“If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.”
“If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.”

Source : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006
“Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,”

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