Faina Ranevskaya Quotes

Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

Faina Ranevskaya

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• I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Talk

• There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Friend

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Understand
  • Find

• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Relationship

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Always
  • Alignment

• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Goal
  • Defeat
  • Sail

• When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Math
  • Girls
  • PR

• I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Regret

• What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Cure
  • Physician
  • Origin

• I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Working

• I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Peace
  • Alone
  • Partnership

• All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Earth

• I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Good
  • Work
  • Director

• If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Remember
  • Die
  • Sister

• Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Challenge
  • Challenges
  • Hockey

• Country music has always sort of been country music.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Music
  • Country

• When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Violence

• I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • People
  • Music
  • Imagination

• Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya
  • Ballet
  • Hockey