Faina Ranevskaya Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Acting's boring.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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On should life his life in such a way that even bastards remember him.
