Book: In between

We adore common expressions that somehow become truths. "If a person is talented, then he is talented in everything." Rave. I know a few geniuses who are incapable of driving a nail or boiling an egg.

I'm in good shape. The content is getting worse and worse.

Old age is hopeless and unprofitable. The meaning of living is to justify fate.

And you don't even need to play Vysotsky, Katchalov or Smoktunovsky. We need to play Chatsky, Mephistopheles and Othello, and we must try to become the Kachalovs and Smoktunovskys.

On stage, you cannot replay a child, a cat and a dog - they are organic, naive and sincere.

Rights and obligations! The more a population demands rights, the more severely it is reminded of its responsibilities.

If you cannot live in the country you love, love the country in which you live.

The parameters of success are different for everyone. Vinokur's parameters: labor 10%, cronyism - 1%, talent - 9%, chance - 6%, charm - 74%. Over the years, when labor, cronyism, talent and chance have already occurred, 100% of the charm remains.

Providing help and not remembering about it is true kindness.