Faina Ranevskaya Quotes
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.
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I feel like only now in my life do I really get it -- do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.
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All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.
