Faina Ranevskaya Quotes
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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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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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
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I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.
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In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
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I'm a total performer.
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To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed
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When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
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Some things are difficult to adapt to.
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I am intrigued by women I have conversations with.
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I've always felt very confident in my ability.
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Optimism is lack of information.
