Faina Ranevskaya Quotes
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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I was really gobsmacked.
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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
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When the mirror meets with an ugly woman, when a rare ink-stone finds a vulgar owner, and when a good sword is in the hands of a common general, there is utterly nothing to be done about it.
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Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
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In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.
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Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?
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'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.
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For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
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It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
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As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.
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I guess that’s the thing about a hero’s journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to.
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Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.
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It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.
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Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.
