Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.
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This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.
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One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
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For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.
