Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes
I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.

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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
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The most signal triumphs of the Romantic portrayal of memory are not those which recall past happiness, but remembrances of those moments when future happiness still seemed possible, when hopes were not yet frustrated.
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The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'
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I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.