Maria Agutina

It is a crucial moment when upbringing every child, that he doesn’t come to experience fear. If he did something wrong, he has to realize that he won’t be punished but, instead, it will be explained to him what exactly he did wrong.

It’s extremely hard to raise a child nowadays, especially with all the brainwashing you get from the TV. Even finding a coloring book with decent characters that don’t beat anyone up or pull ugly faces has become almost impossible. Freedom is turning into an amorality of some sort.

A Russian man has this stereotype that if it’s made in Russia, it means it’s made poorly. Rather buy an old Honda than a new Volga.

I know how to forgive and can find common language with people very fast. Someone finds it very hard, but it helps me a lot with my work.

When I’m deciding on getting something for myself, I stick to the “this can wait” principle, but when it comes to kiddy things and toys, I just can’t help buying something new every time. So I try to rush past the kiddy sections really fast (laughs).

Why earning money to keep putting it aside for a rainy day? I’m completely useless with savings and I follow the principle of living “here and now”. You just have to spend it reasonably.

I don’t make plans for the next few years. What’s the point? It’s said that man proposes, but God disposes. I just have certain ambitions that I’m trying to turn into reality.

It often happens that we don’t love someone for something, but rather despite it.

Smoking enhances the thinking process. There’s even such a saying: “Let’s go smoke this through”. And you can also find out all sorts of gossips and secrets while you’re in the smoking room (laughs).

As soon as I realize that I need to take my car to the car service, I begin to panic — I don’t want to go down into the subway! It’s already come to a point where I can’t imagine my life without a car, but those are the downsides of living in a metropolis.

To be able to comprehend modern art, you have to be a genius, so, apparently, I just don’t happen to be one.

To generate a person’s publicity properly, you have to think much of them, be friends with them, because all of it affects the quality of the final product.
Our social life is extremely monotonous. It takes about six-seven months of practising till you can start predicting what this or that upcoming event is going to be like, because the scenarios are pretty much the same everywhere.

We shouldn’t concentrate on whatever problems we have with each other, but give people our appreciation and respect instead.