Egocentric Quote by Joseph Brodsky

If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have…

— Debra Dean

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

— Agnes Smedley

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we…

— Ivan Turgenev

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever…

— Melvyn Douglas

What's happening in Russia of course is you have a country watching out for its national interest.

— Dana Rohrabacher

There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to…

— Masha Gessen

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why…

— Anton Yelchin

My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy,…

— Joseph Brodsky

The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.

— Jamie Hince