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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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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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 love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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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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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
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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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The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'
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I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.
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Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
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Most adults have some childlike fascination for making and arranging larger structures out of smaller ones.
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Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.
