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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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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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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I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most.
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I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
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We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
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These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.
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When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.
