Faina Ranevskaya Quotes
When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!
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Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.
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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.
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A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
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Partnerships like those remind us that the relationship between nations is not just defined by governments, but is defined by people - especially the young people who will determine the future long after those of us who are currently in positions of power leave the stage.
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Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
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Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.
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Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
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The hardest part is always the middle of anything because at that point, on some unconscious level, you have to figure out what it's about and why you're doing it and what it means. You don't know that in the beginning.
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When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.
